I’m still kind of hoping to stick to the time table but I
have a feeling Carville was not expecting the left wing to be led into the “mud
against the wall to see if it sticks” strategy. Regardless, a lot of educating
is going on here, apparently. In this second part of my opus, I really want to
lay the framework for terrifying things that I guess might suddenly come up to
surprise people at the oddest times considering their vast hysterical importance.
Someone actually suggested I might be a Nihilist from my
rantings in part 1 of this series, a term which before I generally thought
to mean that one believed in basically nothing. I get the finer points now but
still. Let me disabuse you of that notion. I see a great deal that is wrong, I
have very strong political views but… alas, somehow I am outnumbered because no
one does anything about the problems that seem all but obvious to me and incredibly important.
Let
me begin with the first thing that bothers me to the point of wanting to
abandon our country and move elsewhere. The Senate is not representational. We
do not have a democracy nor even a fair representative republic in this body
(and I will get to the other bodies in later musings. A good murder mystery always has
more and more bodies.) When numbers are bantered about that a party has
a majority in the Senate, there are logical reasons this should not make any sense
at all in any policy perspective, despite the numbers that seem to be obvious.
First
is the most obvious: there are two Senators from each state. This one factor
alone disqualifies us as a democracy and please let’s not get our powdered wigs in a twist when this all comes up in a
smear campaign.
State
|
# of US Citizens Being Represented.
|
Percentage of US Citizens
in State Represented
|
Number of Senators with
completely equal power
|
|
1
|
37,253,956
|
11.91%
|
2
|
|
2
|
26,059,203
|
8.04%
|
2
|
|
3
|
19,570,261
|
6.19%
|
2
|
|
4
|
19,317,568
|
6.01%
|
2
|
|
5
|
12,875,255
|
4.10%
|
2
|
|
6
|
12,763,536
|
4.06%
|
2
|
|
7
|
11,544,225
|
3.69%
|
2
|
|
8
|
9,919,945
|
3.10%
|
2
|
|
9
|
9,883,360
|
3.16%
|
2
|
|
10
|
9,752,073
|
3.05%
|
2
|
|
11
|
8,864,590
|
2.81%
|
2
|
|
12
|
8,185,867
|
2.56%
|
2
|
|
13
|
6,897,012
|
2.15%
|
2
|
|
14
|
6,646,144
|
2.09%
|
2
|
|
15
|
6,553,255
|
2.04%
|
2
|
|
16
|
6,537,334
|
2.07%
|
2
|
|
17
|
6,456,243
|
2.03%
|
2
|
|
18
|
6,021,988
|
1.91%
|
2
|
|
19
|
5,884,563
|
1.85%
|
2
|
|
20
|
5,726,398
|
1.82%
|
2
|
|
21
|
5,379,139
|
1.70%
|
2
|
|
22
|
5,187,582
|
1.61%
|
2
|
|
23
|
4,822,023
|
1.53%
|
2
|
|
24
|
4,723,723
|
1.48%
|
2
|
|
25
|
4,601,893
|
1.45%
|
2
|
|
26
|
4,380,415
|
1.39%
|
2
|
|
27
|
3,899,353
|
1.22%
|
2
|
|
28
|
3,814,820
|
1.20%
|
2
|
|
—
|
3,667,084
|
1.19%
|
0
|
|
29
|
3,590,347
|
1.14%
|
2
|
|
30
|
3,074,186
|
0.97%
|
2
|
|
31
|
2,984,926
|
0.95%
|
2
|
|
32
|
2,949,131
|
0.93%
|
2
|
|
33
|
2,885,905
|
0.91%
|
2
|
|
34
|
2,855,287
|
0.88%
|
2
|
|
35
|
2,758,931
|
0.86%
|
2
|
|
36
|
2,085,538
|
0.66%
|
2
|
|
37
|
1,855,525
|
0.58%
|
2
|
|
38
|
1,855,413
|
0.59%
|
2
|
|
39
|
1,595,728
|
0.51%
|
2
|
|
40
|
1,392,313
|
0.43%
|
2
|
|
41
|
1,329,192
|
0.42%
|
2
|
|
42
|
1,320,718
|
0.42%
|
2
|
|
43
|
1,050,292
|
0.34%
|
2
|
|
44
|
1,005,141
|
0.32%
|
2
|
|
45
|
917,092
|
0.29%
|
2
|
|
46
|
833,354
|
0.26%
|
2
|
|
47
|
731,449
|
0.23%
|
2
|
|
48
|
699,628
|
0.21%
|
2
|
|
—
|
632,323
|
0.19%
|
0
|
|
49
|
626,011
|
0.20%
|
2
|
|
50
|
576,412
|
0.18%
|
2
|
Ok,
somehow I guess you were expecting more. No, this disqualifies our country on a
basic right that we all assume: “equality.”
It disqualifies us from fair representation. To me, my privacy is important yes, my ability
to vote to affect laws that affect my privacy and countless other issues: more
important.
How
do I put this in sandwich terms? The guy in front of you in line gets a bigger
sandwich for the same price. In fact he can’t carry it out. You, from California,
get 1 sandwich for every 66 the guy in front of you from Wyoming gets for the
same price. You stand there, watch him take his sacks out in multiple trips, olive oil dribbling down the
aisle, as you wait for your turn to order your one sandwich.
This
vast inequity of power has also been noted by people in the business of buying
off politicians. So, I pay 5 dollars and get 66 footlongs here, and 5 dollars gets me one there. An international company doesn’t
care if the person that is helping block
legislation is in your particular region, or is your particular representative. They care about the bottom line, and your bottom line is close to meaningless.
So
why couldn’t the President with a majority in the Senate get your left wing
cause off the ground? Seriously, you
think that a President can convince a majority of folks getting campaign funds and other goodies from International
companies? While the news reporters are owned by the rich… etc etc? Majority
is just not possible in the Senate except with the most basic of issues. And
hey, even if you have a majority, the minority can have a filibuster without
actually having one. Each member has a virtual veto on every other member that together
represent vast amounts of the population.
Tell
me you get it, please. Tell me I am not
a Nihilist for thinking the whole thing is laughable.
But it is just
a few more days to go before overload and implosion of scandals if James Carville's prediction is right.
However, at least give his prediction another month. I think he ordered Swiss Cheese on the left side of his sandwich
and got extra Amurican instead.
[1] James Carville: This is all over in 30
days - Politico http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/james-carville-this-is-all-over-in-30-days-91481.html#ixzz2VdHX9dMR
[2] Essentially, this is just
a table of population with Senate representation added. I guess I understand
why the table in Wikipedia has the House representation figures but not the
Senate. I guess, I understand. But it only takes a very thin column to do show
the other representatives, so why not include it? It is subtle, but this chart
is incomplete in just totally ignoring the hypocrisy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
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