One plank in the DSA platform is to get rid of the Senate….and there has been a wealth of ink wasted on this idea by MAGA propaganda rags.

Get rid of the Senate?

Now there is a novel idea.  (sarcasm)

I have advocated getting rid of the Senate and become a unicameral government….and boy did I get push back years ago when I wrote about the idea….that was 7 years ago.

We can explain the Senate thusly….’where great ideas go to die’…the Senate has been dysfunctional for many decades…..if it cannot get its shit together why not just get rid of it?

As a matter of fact (you guessed it….I wrote about it)…..

Against Bicameralism

I bring up my thoughts because apparently the DSA has added this into their 2026 platform….

Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy. Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.

I believe the UK is doing something along this line with the House of Lords (any UK readers want to expand on this for us)…but here it will be an uphill struggle.

The DSA is saying the same thing….this from their new platform….

Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy. Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.

I have no problem with this issue.

Let’s be honest….is the senate really necessary?

American democracy has a big problem. It’s called the U.S. Senate. The United States Senate was explicitly designed to be undemocratic: It represents states, not people. Some states have as many people as a city, while others have as many as a large country. The great state of Wyoming is home to fewer people than any one of the nation’s most populous 25 cities. More people live in California than either Canada or Australia. But each state gets two senators, regardless of population. The result? Half of the nation’s people have only 18 senators representing them, while 52 senators represent just 18 percent of Americans.

The skew isn’t random. White Americans have on average nearly twice as much representation in the Senate as Black and Hispanic Americans. That’s because the large and growing states — California, Texas, Florida, and New York — are becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, while many small states are staying white. Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont are among the smallest and the whitest states.

This representation gap in the US Senate is only getting worse. As big, diverse states continue to grow, their people will get even less say in Congress. In 20 years, one-in-three Americans will be represented by just six out of one hundred Senators.

The answer to my question is….NO we do not need the Senate…..the place where good ideas go to die…..we need functioning representation.

What do you think?

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