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Land doesn't vote. People vote.
**Land SHOULDN'T vote.
Abolish the senate.
Why does the Senate exist then?
I'm not sure what you're asking. The Senate isn't based on land. Texas gets just as many votes in the Senate as Rohde Island.
Normally, in a democracy, you have two chambers for the legislature so that one of them is filled by popular vote from all over the country and the other by representatives allocated for administrative divisions.
In the US both chambers are allocated for predefined divisions, just on different scales (state vs slice of population), so the principle of the popular vote is not represented.
It does serve (in theory) to make up for a state that had lower population, but since the slices are subject to manipulation it's debatable.
State governments, which represent the people, vote.
Why does land determine who tells me what to do then?
Because the US electoral system is fundamentally broken?
What? It's a worldwide thing, not just the US
Yes, to some extent it happens everywhere but the US has reduced the phenominon to its grotesque final form.
No, it happens to the same extent in basically anywhere that's populated and can afford to enforce it
Ya...ok...