Founding Father: It is absolutely necessary that each state has two senators, and the Electoral College is likewise indispensable.
Me: Did you know that the most populous state has 68 times more people than the smallest?
Founding Father: Impossible! You must be counting every slave in Virginia as three-fifths of a person. [Triumphantly, after performing long division on the back of a personal letter he just received in the mail]: And even then it's impossible!
Me: Furthermore, in another 20 years, 70% of the population will live in the 15 most populous states. Thus, absent reform, more than two-thirds of the seats in the Senate will be reserved for senators who represent less than one-third of the people. The inequality will be reproduced in the Electoral College. The interests of older, white, rural Americans will be grotesquely over-represented and the social fabric will fray. [Warming]: We are already seeing signs of this. If the majority keeps voting for one thing and getting another, we're going to be, like, super pissed!
Founding Father: You seem to be referring to a transcontinental nation of 50 states in which slaves have full political rights. Please try to keep it real. May I have Tyrone prepare you another cocktail?
Me: Tell him to make it a stiff one.
[Curtain.]
(If after the midterms Republicans retain their congressional majorities, I am going to devote all my waking hours to watching the above video.)
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