Message from @4AM_critter 🐉
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Yes, their area, not the state.
Right, which is why you have senators
Who want whats best for their state as a whole
The elctoral district have 7 seats, you are not locked to any particular geographical subset
Who should be appointed by the state legislature not popular election.
Nope
Yes.
@4AM_critter 🐉 yes, but winner takes all?
Because the people of the state need to have a say in who goes to congress
They do, that's the representive.
@Dennafen isn't stuff like this partly how the EU go into such a mess?
NO. Grenade, imagine 20 persons running for office. The 7 candidates with the most votes get the seats.
@4AM_critter 🐉 so everyone votes on all 7 seats, rather than 1.
@Grenade123 Yes, because they don't have representatives.
I dont want my represetnatives who cant even agree on a budget for my state to decide who gets to represent us in washington
No, you have one vote, and you can only vote for one person.
Because as you said, those locally elected representatives dont care whats best for other areas they only care about their own
@4AM_critter 🐉 okay, all 20 get some percent of the vote. what now? take the top 7?
Yes, but they have to pick one person for six years.
what happens if less than 7 get votes.
Which is why I dont want them to pick a person, because they dont care about the state as a whole, what they care about is their own re-election
its only like 4 people @4AM_critter 🐉
Then that senator is no longer beholden to the people, he becomes beholden to the state representatives which elected him
They don't elect him.
Appointed whaterver
So we should vote on supreme court judges?
Thats what the Senate is for
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They're supposed to think about how people in the state will be affected by that judge
No.
They're supposed to think about how the state will be effected.
No?
Why would they think about how their state government will be affected?
pretty sure they don't think about either
Because that's what all of their job functions revolve around.
they think about will this person make a good addition, and you vote for them in hopes that how they think about that judge will be reflected by you
In the system which you describe yes
In the current system no
In the current system yes.