New political science research in @TheEconomist finds that U.S. Senate malapportionment has the largest right-wing bias of any chamber among many democracies https://t.co/XkwXnKaoBC
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) March 16, 2023
We previously noted ⬇️ how the GOP has long won power with fewer voters & constituents than Dems https://t.co/T2bIwiBpgN pic.twitter.com/FIKAoPupyA
Today 41 Senate Republicans representing just 69M Americans will block the For the People Act that 225M Americans support. A system in which 69M people overrule the will of 225M people is not a functioning democracy.#AbolishTheFilibuster
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) June 22, 2021
12% of the country is represented by 41 senators – the U.S.'s (incredible outlier) system of governance empowers that 12% to block what 88% of the country wants to do. McConnell's dismissal of the legitimacy of huge swaths of voters is just the natural end result of that system https://t.co/U1GKK75xUX
— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) June 14, 2021
Sad! 