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Campaign 2016 Part XXV: Fin

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mookie1995 said:
can we make the senate proportional representation too?
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It is, by state.

The idea, not mine, it came slightly before my time, is that the House represents the people's interests and the Senate represents the states' interests. One rep per certain number of people, 2 senators per state, proportional.

Again, not my idea, but a good one in my opinion. Each state, as a whole, has certain interests. Those interests need representation and would be completely lost if the Senate was proportional by population. Basically, what's good for California isn't necessarily what's good for Delaware, but without the Senate, it would have to be.
 
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E.J. Smith said:
It is, by state.

The idea, not mine, it came slightly before my time, is that the House represents the people's interests and the Senate represents the states' interests. One rep per certain number of people, 2 senators per state, proportional.

Again, not my idea, but a good one in my opinion. Each state, as a whole, has certain interests. Those interests need representation and would be completely lost if the Senate was proportional by population. Basically, what's good for California isn't necessarily what's good for Delaware, but without the Senate, it would have to be.
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Which is also why senators used to be elected by the legislature rather than the people. The senators were more of an ambassador from the state itself to the federal government, rather than a people's representative.
 
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This was in our paper today. She wrote what I feel and what I take from this election.

Your son in the military is tortured by an enemy because torture is now OK.

Your son comes home crying because his principal made fun of his disability.

Your daughter’s male gymnastic coach regularly walks in while she’s changing.

Your wife is crudely groped by a stranger in a bar.

Your child dies from an asthma attack due to the rise in pollution, because business profits come before all else (even while taxpayers continually pay to clean up after them).

The United States is attacked by nuclear bombs in retaliation for a U.S. strike, because nuclear strikes are now OK.

Your small business fails because a big corporation refused to pay you, and paying to fight it would bankrupt you just as much as the lack of pay. That is also now OK.

Your child goes to a college for two years, comes out with debt, no grades, no transferrable credits and a degree that’s not even recognized. But that’s OK, because it was a for-profit school.

You pay into health insurance for 20 years with very few health problems, get laid off, can’t afford health care, go bankrupt, lose your house. But that is OK, because of personal responsibility.

Your government goes after your family after you go to jail, punishing them for your choices, because that is now OK.

Your husband cheats on you. Your husband trades you in for a younger model. Your daughter has anorexia because she wants to be a 10 and thinks she is worth nothing if she’s not. Your daughter leaves a professional seminar running out scared for her safety because the male presenters there got the crowd taunting her for asking a difficult question.

You cannot complain about any of this when it happens to you or your loved ones if you voted for Trump. If you voted for Trump, you voted for this.

Marnee DeRider, Bloomington
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Save the drama for your mama.


None of that stuff is going to become acceptable.
 
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E.J. Smith said:
It is, by state.

The idea, not mine, it came slightly before my time, is that the House represents the people's interests and the Senate represents the states' interests. One rep per certain number of people, 2 senators per state, proportional.

Again, not my idea, but a good one in my opinion. Each state, as a whole, has certain interests. Those interests need representation and would be completely lost if the Senate was proportional by population. Basically, what's good for California isn't necessarily what's good for Delaware, but without the Senate, it would have to be.
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It also used to be that the state legislatures picked the senators. That changed in 1913 with amendment XVII. Wouldn't mind seeing that repealed; maybe we wouldn't have jerks like Nixon and Reagan holding states hostage to "state laws" that are really federal by stealing their federal funding.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
So, a hypothetical:
Under that law, if I'm at the target range with a friend and give them my firearm to take home and store for me temporarily (because I have somewhere else to go where I can not legally have it), we've broken the law? Because they have my firearm without me present it's a violation?
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If you haven't run a background check on them, sure. I don't see a problem with that. At least not its face.
 
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