CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria is dismayed with our Constitution and the concept of a republican democracy.
[T]he Constitutional concept of equal representation in the U.S. Senate [is] a “structural problem.”
And
…”new dividing line in Western politics,” which [Zakaria] describes is the “less-educated rural populations” he calls “Outsiders” who “feel ignored or looked down upon” and “feel deep resentment towards metropolitan elites.”
And
…30% of America is now electing 70% of the Senate. All those states with—you think of Wyoming. It has roughly a million people. It has two senators. California with 70 million people has two senators as well. So we have a kind of structural problem here where the land is being overrepresented. The people are being underrepresented. So both sides feel deeply wronged.
However.
That alleged imbalance is a designed-in feature, not a problem; it’s what makes us a republican democracy of some durability, not a popular democracy doomed to the failure of tyranny at the hands of a few—Zakaria’s metro elites, for instance.
The need to balance the large- and small-population States in one house of our Congress is just as important today as it was those 230 years ago. For the same reason and for another: the political divide between the populous coastal States and less populous flyover country—illustrated by that very term of the Left’s and by Zakaria’s plain contempt for the less-educated (as we must be, because rural)—is even deeper than the political divide between the populous and rural States of those original thirteen.
Wyoming needs to be able to defend itself from an overweening California.
It’s sad that Zakaria slept through his 8th grade civics class.