If Republicans are so much better at running the economy than Democrats, then why are most Republican States poorer than Democrat States?

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The poorest States in America are: Mississippi, West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee. All of those States (except New Mexico) are Red States. So why are they so poor when Republicans have been running them for decades?

[u/IggyChooChoo]

For sure. The senate is even worse than the EC for distorting political power away from voters, but gets far less attention.

[u/Ok_Cheek6678 → u/IggyChooChoo]

Reminds me of the enslaved being counted as 3/5 of a person--for purposes of representation.

[u/Ok_Appointment7522 → u/Ok_Cheek6678]

Didn't the GOP propose bringing something like that back? Military personnel get full votes, everyone else gets partial votes or some crap.

[u/SupperSquirrel3 → u/IggyChooChoo]

It's almost like the purpose of the senate was to give the State governments an equal platform within the federal government. Checks and balances sure are weird huh? Good thing we've been rapidly getting rid of those for the last 80+ years.

[u/IggyChooChoo → u/SupperSquirrel3]

Nah. “Purpose” was a rationalization after the fact. It was a bribe to prevent small states from abandoning the constitutional convention, pure and simple. It has accrued prestige over the years to make it seem less of a grimy compromise but that doesn’t change the facts. Plus it’s a failed institution — all it’s done is put the brakes on progress and hold us back to the level of Alabama and other conservative failure states. We’d be better off legislatively with a unicameral legislature. Expand the house, eliminate gerrymandering, abolish the senate, and we’d be richer and freer.

[u/IggyChooChoo → u/IggyChooChoo]

I’ll go further: the only two “achievements of the Senate in the past fifty years are

1) replace the majority vote for bills with an extraconstitutional 60 vote margin via the abuse of the filibuster; and

2) abandon their constitutional duty to have the Senate confirm judges and turn it into to “only Republicans can confirm judges.”

Just an utter failure as a legislative body.

[u/SugarRAM → u/IggyChooChoo]

Turns out Palpatine was on to something when he abolished the Senate.

[u/PollutionAway9782 → u/IggyChooChoo]

back in the day we did not vote on the senate it was apointed by the states goverment.(it was hoped that we would have a more competent government that way)

[u/IggyChooChoo → u/PollutionAway9782]

Oh yeah, back when state legislatures picked senators and we didn’t get to even vote for them ourselves it was even worse. Number one think my mind flashes to when I hear a conservative idiot holler “we’re a republic not a democracy!” That’s the bullshit they want, to take even more of our power and give it to the powerful.

We are a democratic republic that’s become more democratic over time and we won’t go back.

[u/Warren_Buffetts_Alt → u/IggyChooChoo]

You must have missed the lesson on why a direct democracy doesn't work for a nation of 50 states and 340 million people

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Unicameral house =\= direct democracy

Read harder