Senate is fair

Hugh Bailey's piece on Sunday regarding his disdain for a fundamental part of our government has left a sour taste in my mouth. I do understand that as an opinion piece he is certainly entitled to it, however I feel I must respond. He objects to the idea of a small state having equal representation as that of a larger state. The two examples he gives, incidentally, are of Wyoming, which has two Republican senators, and California, which has two Democratic senators. Wyoming has the smaller population while California is larger.

I’m sure that as a liberal he objects to a conservative state having an equal voice in the Senate, but let me put something out there. Rhode Island, at a population of about 1.06 million, is smaller than Louisiana which has about 4.65 million. How wonderfully convenient to his point that he didn’t mention these two states, the larger of which has two Republican senators versus the smaller which as two Democratic senators. I thought he objected to smaller states having as equal a voice as the larger ones. I guess I was mistaken.

Also, he seems to forget the existence of something called the House of Representatives. The entire structure of our government is based on states as separate entities having an equal voice with each other as well as the populations of these states having an equal voice. I suppose liberals just won’t be happy unless their point of view is the only one that matters. Richard Sturges Seymour