> Where'd all this abolish the senate nonsense come from recently?
if you think it's recent, you haven't been paying particularly close attention
2021: The Senate Cannot Be Reformed — It Can Only Be Abolished [0]
2018: The Case for Abolishing the Senate [1]
2004: What Democracy? The case for abolishing the United States Senate [2]
and that's just from the first page of Kagi results for "abolish the senate". I have no doubt it goes back farther than that if I actually went digging for historical sources.
the imbalance of power is only going to get worse as time goes on, as well [3]
> By 2040, two-thirds of Americans will be represented by 30 percent of the Senate
> “David Birdsell, dean of the school of public and international affairs at Baruch College, notes that by 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states,” Seib wrote. “They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them.”
if you think it's recent, you haven't been paying particularly close attention
2021: The Senate Cannot Be Reformed — It Can Only Be Abolished [0]
2018: The Case for Abolishing the Senate [1]
2004: What Democracy? The case for abolishing the United States Senate [2]
and that's just from the first page of Kagi results for "abolish the senate". I have no doubt it goes back farther than that if I actually went digging for historical sources.
the imbalance of power is only going to get worse as time goes on, as well [3]
> By 2040, two-thirds of Americans will be represented by 30 percent of the Senate
> “David Birdsell, dean of the school of public and international affairs at Baruch College, notes that by 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states,” Seib wrote. “They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them.”
0: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abolish-us-senate...
1: https://www.gq.com/story/the-case-for-abolishing-the-senate
2: https://harpers.org/archive/2004/05/what-democracy-the-case-...
3: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/28/b...