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by YankeeTarheel
There are some exceptions to the powers granted to the Senate, specifically in the 25th.
1) When there is a vacancy in the Vice-Presidency, the President may nominate a replacement, but BOTH Houses must approve that nominee.
2) When the President is removed against his will, and then demands to be restored, if the VP and majority of the Cabinet disagree, BOTH Houses must sustain the removal by 2/3 majorities.
But the 2 Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming, all with only a single at large Congress person, have 8 Senators. They have 3.1 million people, total. California, Texas, Florida, and New York have 109 million, literally more than 1/3 of ALL the US population, more than 35x the first 4, and STILL only have 8 senators.
Less than 18% of the population can block the will of the other 82% one EVERYTHING! It's become a tyranny of the minority!
If you look at the population of just the states with 2 Democratic senators, not including the split states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, they represent 63% of the nation, out of 326 million people in the 50 states, they contain 204 million, yet don't even come CLOSE to majority in the Senate.
And, quite frankly, the CONTROL by the small states has NEVER evened out, not when it came to slaves in the 1700's, nor when it came to the 2017 tax bill that DELIBERATELY hammers taxpayers in the Blue States by getting rid of the SALT exemption, while benefitting the Red States. I shudder to think what our tax bill will look like, when we are limited in our mortgage, property tax and state income exemptions are slashed. And it was DELIBERATE to punish Blue States. Yertle and Ryan and all their Trumpian thralls knew it, and intended it.
I've YET to see in our history how the big states and urban areas dominated and hurt the sparse areas in the ways the reverse has happened.
Let's not forget that of the 30 states that went for the Shit-Stain, 26 of them are "welfare queens", getting more from the budget than they contribute in taxes. Of the remaining 4 that are donors, 2, Texas and Florida, just BARELY give more than they get, while the 2 that SHOULD have gone Blue, Wisconsin and Michigan, both give a much higher percentage than the other two.
On the other hand, of the 20 states that went for Clinton, 13 are sheep being sheared to pay for EVERYONE else...and they are mostly big states.
So the losers are being drained of their wealth and resources by the winners. At least 2018 changed that in the House.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."