malapportionment of the Senate would not be as a big of an issue if the Senate did not have a de facto supermajority requirement for legislation & if it wasn’t governed by party cartel. with both of those in place, however the Senate just acts as an intractable veto point.
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1328027058933522432
not hard to imagine a Senate where weak party leadership meant all kinds of legislation got to the floor to be deliberated on and voted on with passage guaranteed by simple majority
if the senate is just going to be a veto point, rather than a governing partner, the best solution is to change the nature of the veto, such that one needs a supermajority to reject legislation from the House, rather than a supermajority to approve it.
i mean, that’s the thing, right? as the framers recognized, there is no configuration of government — no system of checks and balances — that can make up for a lack of virtue or commitment to compromise and fair play among the public and its representatives
https://twitter.com/ossstream/status/1328036825374593028
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