It was designed that way. The country isn't called the United Citizens of America. You get your representation by population in the House (which isn't perfectly rep by pop i know). The system was designed so the states can't dominate the individual citizens, and the citizens can't dominate the states. It's a system based on checks and balances via broad consent and compromise.
It’s very bad design when Wyoming has as much political power as California. It’s actually idiotic.
Why would states be more important than citizens in a democracy?
Consent? No... a minority can rule over the majority. That’s not consent.
In Canada there are fewer checks and balances. The Senate and the GG are essentially rubber stamps by convention and are chosen by the same people who make the laws, and there's no executive veto because there's no separation of powers between the executive and legislature. If Trump was the PM and was re-elected long enough, in a majority he could have control of the legislature and also hand-pick the GG and most of the Senate and Supreme Court while also having no term limits for himself.
“If Trump was the PM”... except Trump couldn’t get near the PM, nor could he have retained the confidence of the House. In theory, America is amazing... well... if you listen to Americans tell it at least. In reality, it’s a shitshow that doesn’t work as well as any other western democracy. They are near the bottom of the list of western democracies in terms of liberty, freedoms, corruption, etc.
#25 on the list of the Democracy Index. Canada is tied for 7th.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_IndexSo if you actually have measurable, they suck... if you buy in to the bullshit jingoism, like yourself, then I guess they’re great.
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