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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 42 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I mean, on the one hand, this is the nut of why the Senate as an establishment is fucked. You have one guy who is supposed to represent the views of upwards of 38 million people (or, even we're being a bit cynical, 9M partisan voters). Obviously, he won't do that. Arguably, this is an impossible task.

Then, on the other hand, it really depends on which Senator and which constituent we're talking about. Because I'm old enough to remember "Town Hall" events in 2010 and 2016 that had very obvious partisan plants looking to effectively heckle a Congressman in order to "Go Viral" with a clipped and edited response. This was part and parcel with the "Project Veritas" strategy of disinformation and race-baiting.

But then you have a guy like Cochran who has been a piece of shit his entire career (arguably his whole life). A man who had been infesting the Mississippi Senate since 1978, as a Nixonian Southern Strategy candidate. A guy who ranked among sleazeballs like Strom Thurmond, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee, Rick Scott, and Joe Manchin as a bigot, parasite, and hack. For his replacement, Roger Wicker, to be even more openly reviled by his constituency really says something about the abysmal state of Mississippi politics.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Abolish the Senate, expand the House. By the People, for the People.

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