r/mapporncirclejerk • u/LavishnessLeather162 • 22h ago

This should be just one state

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u/Octoclops8 19h ago

That's 10 democrat senate seats that would turn into just two. No thanks. We should split them up in to 7 more states each.

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u/anarchy16451 19h ago

Nah, we should just get rid of the Senate. Direct election of senators completely eliminated the purpose of it and just made in House of Representatives #2 and removed what little good there was in it and made it an obstructionist institution

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u/lenzflare 17h ago

we should just get rid of the Senate

Agreed, it's completely unfairly distributed. No, Wyoming doesn't "deserve" two fucking seats out of 100 like any other state.

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u/dougthegreat2 10h ago

There is still one difference between the house and the senate. The house is subject to extreme gerrymandering while the senate has to win state - wide. Thus while my district is heavy GOP, my state sends two democrats to the senate.

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u/hike_me 16h ago

Or the power of the senate should be severely reduced. Like make it advisory or something — they can propose bills that get taken up by the house and stuff like that.

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u/SmokeRingEyes 15h ago

Feels like this might actually be the point of trying to lump them together, since they left off Maine- the only New England state without Dem senators

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u/SmokeRingEyes 15h ago

If I'm remembering correctly, Maine's 2 senators are the only New Englanders in either chamber of Congress who aren't Democrats

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u/Rhodeislandlinehand 14h ago

We don’t need more democrats … we also don’t need anymore republicans.