CNN's Fareed Zakaria: Wyoming having same number of senators as California is a 'structural problem'

[Wingnut]

Hilary calls us deplorables.  This asshat says we are less educated hicks!



CNN hosts Fareed Zakaria and Don Lemon expressed their frustration with the electoral map and the structure of Congress, calling the Constitutional concept of equal representation in the U.S. Senate a "structural problem."

In a Washington Post op-ed, Zakaria weighed in on the “new dividing line in Western politics,” which he describes is the “less-educated rural populations” he calls “Outsiders’” who “feel ignored or looked down upon” and “feel deep resentment towards metropolitan elites.”

“If you look at the people who feel the most outrage… it tends to be on the older side, white men with less education who live outside cities,” Zakaria told CNN host Don Lemon. “Because in a way, their world has been upended. They lived in these small towns and they felt they had a lot of status, they had a steady job, and that world has gone away and that world has been replaced by, you know, the jobs are gone, that status has gone away with the rise of a much more diverse, heterogeneous society.”

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnns-fareed-zakaria-wyoming-having-same-number-of-senators-as-california-is-a-structural-problem

[Free Vulcan]

No Fareed, the problem is that it doesn't agree with your snitty elitist world view, and that it blocks you neo-Marxists from an easy power grab.

So screw you.

[corbe]

   California, NY and Illinois should not have any Senators.

[goatprairie]

Someone should explain to those nincompoops about federalism and the fear of The Founders of concentrations of power with elites and factions. I do believe there is the word "states"and not "large cities" in the formal title of our country.

[DB]

A Constitutional Republic is not mob rule, i.e. not a pure democracy.

A fundamental lack of knowledge/understanding on the part of these "journalists".

Too many people have been misinformed holding democracy as the highest ideal. It is our constitution that sets the framework for people to be democratically elected to represent us in this country while putting restraints on its sudden whims protecting the individual's basic human rights. Without those constitutional restraints everything else is moot. Life quickly descends into tyranny of the majority.

[Cyber Liberty]

Fareed:  It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[HoustonSam]

Fareed:  It's not a bug, it's a feature.

It *was* a feature until the 17th Amendment.  The US Senate is not designed to represent the *people* of each state, it’s designed to represent the state *governments*.  The sovereignty of Wyoming over its affairs is no less than that of California. But the reform movement of the early 20th century broke that aspect of checks and balances.

[Cyber Liberty]

It *was* a feature until the 17th Amendment.  The US Senate is not designed to represent the *people* of each state, it’s designed to represent the state *governments*.  The sovereignty of Wyoming over its affairs is no less than that of California. But the reform movement of the early 20th century broke that aspect of checks and balances.

I wouldn't argue with that.  Fareed here just wants to nail that coffin shut.