Do You Know Why The US Senate Was Created? The indented quote(s), below in this post set things in motion. The quote(s) in this thread are not intended to embarrass or humiliate only to give context to an interesting observation: many people here and elsewhere have their own ideas on things that just don't measure up to what is on the record.
So, do you know why the US Senate was created and how it is supposed to work and also keep things in check?
Mob rule is the control by a simple majority whether it be Democratic or Republican, Liberal or Conservative.These RWnuts think democracy is mob rule, and claim that's why they don't want it. The mob they refer to, of course,
is defined as 'people who don't vote Republican'.
btw, this democracy/mob rule thing? Greece is the usual historical reference when talking about direct democracy.
Fact is, somewhere around only 10% or so of Greece's population had the right to vote. Far from the 'mob'.
50% plus 1 is not the true will of the people in a direct Democracy, which is why the Senate was created in the first place.
A Republic is a nation of laws, just as a Democracy is a nation of laws. It's just under our system a temporary ideology doesn't rule the whole dang thing. It has checks that were designed to ensure that no one party can hold on to power for very long at all...........meaning both sides must meet in the middle to determine the path.
In a nut shell, both sides are right and wrong on issues in my opinion. Both sides have good and bad points. Our Republic was designed to hammer it out to an agreement in the middle.
representative democracy is indirect democracy. we are a representative democracy with elements of direct democracy such as ballot initiatives. The US Senate is how we use representative democracy and it was NOT created for the purpose(s) you state.
We are a liberal republic which means we all share a liberal ideology.. Forms of liberalism give us American liberals and conservatism
We do NOT have checks on power in order to ensure one party does not hold power long. We have checks on government power as in the branches of government.
Our Republic had nothing to do with hammering out things in the middle. Good gawd man. wtf?