As if your prior posts hadn’t already made it clear, this should crystallize for all to see that you have a) a bias and b) no understanding of why the Senate exists.
The Senate isn’t in existence to protect the STATES that have small populations (a quaint, but incorrect notion, see the commentary from Madison’s Notes). It exists to protect the PEOPLE in the states with small populations. People in Wyoming and Montana and North Dakota, etc., shouldn’t be forced to live life with restrictions placed on them by the whims of residents in large population states, without some protection.
In practice, both in the past, and in the present, that has proven to be a wise decision by the framers. The split of the Union was forestalled for forty years by the existence of the Senate, and the astute efforts of the Congress at the time to maintain the balance the Senate preserved between the increasingly more populous north and the agricultural south. Keep in mind, slavery wasn’t the only issue between them. Presently, farm states, mostly small states of the midwest, owe a lot of the existing farm legislation to their power in the Senate.
Now, you can point to the farm issue, with its subsidies, and say: “but that’s just it! They whole program benefits only a few at the cost of the many, and it isn’t ‘fair’ that that can continue.”
But that’s the whole point TO the Senate. Like a lot of the checks and balances inserted into the document, including the restrictions on the federal and state governments regarding restriction of personal freedoms, the framers understood that ANY fool country can rule itself by ‘majority says so.’ But to live the life we WANT to lead, there are times the ‘majority’ can’t have its way. And if you think that makes no sense, take a look at Venezuela, where the overwhelming majority of voters approved a President who is promptly attempting to totally dismantle the democratic institutions there.
I have lived in California most of my life. I have also lived in Colorado. I now call Ohio home. And I can tell you that there were significant differences involved in living in each state and I would hate to see that truth dissapear to the demands of those who want to totally dismantle the federal nature of our representative democracy.