It’s great to be a cow in many of our ‘united’ states
People have asked me about Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. “It’s a sham,” I tell them. “Political theater.”
In our current situation, I would then add, the only people able to oust this president from his gold-plated chair in the White House are the voters come November. And only if great numbers that have stopped participating in the process, participate.
Having thought about the question, and my answer, there’s good reason for what we’re seeing develop on national television — well, for those us willing to stay into the AM hours of the night. (Planned this way: The Republicans want as few people as possible to hear the accusations, most true, being hurled against the president.) It has much to do with an issue we discussed last week: our “democracy.” Or should I really say, lack of…
In the previous column I wrote of the Electoral College and how we elected a president that lost the popular vote. Today I’ll dedicate some words to the U.S. Senate, whose members serve as judges over the president during this impeachment trial. The idea came from a recent opinion piece I read in The Washington Post written under the title of Absurd America, and whose headline was: “Are cows better represented in the Senate than people?”
The answer, strangely enough, is yes in numerous states across this land. The writer, Sergio Peçanha, brings to light the case of Wyoming, for example. The population of that western state is 578,000. Wyoming also has and estimated 1.3 million cows. It has two U.S. senators.
California, on the other hand, has a population of 39.5 million persons. I’m not exactly sure how many cows live in California, but I assume it is not close to 39 million. And yet, California has two senators in the U.S. Senate, same as Wyoming. The cows in that state, from what I understand, have not complained.
Consider this: “To put things on a better perspective, let’s look at the 20 states with the least population. Together, these states are home to about 33.5 million people — they hold about 10 percent of the American population and 40 percent of the senators,” Peçanha writes.
He concludes that “focusing on the 20 states with the lowest population, we finally get the answer to our initial question — cows are indeed better represented than people in the Senate.”
And since for the past few weeks I’ve been questioning the absurdity that has become this so-called democracy we live in, this is just another example of how a great number of these 40 senators from cow states, now judging a corrupt and unstable president, can overlook their responsibilities to the citizens of this country. The fact is that a great majority of these 40 senators are Republicans, and their state’s electoral college votes went to Trump in 2016, and now they are more interested in their own reelection than the future of this country. And why they will exonerate our corrupt president…
It sure is great to be a cow in this country.
