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The eye-popping stat here that everybody needs to internalize and grapple with: in 2040, half the country will live in 8 states. Meaning half the country will have 16 senators, and half will have 84. thinkprogress.org/how-abraham-li…
To be clear, this is not what the Founders wanted. Washington, Hamilton, and Madison were all pissed that DE wanted the same number of Senators as VA & MA. They begrudgingly accepted it at a time when VA had 12 times the population of DE. CA now has 70 times the population of WY.
Hamilton in Federalist #22: Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to RI an equal weight in the scale of power with MA, or CT, or NY; and to DE an equal voice in the national deliberations with PA, or VA, or NC.
If Dems manage to take the Senate in 2020 (a big if), the first act has to be eliminating the filibuster and massive enfranchising democracy reform, including admitting new states like DC. It may be their last chance. Thread on that here:
