>>7247769The United States is a Republic. A democracy is direct citizen voting on every issue. A Republic has citizen voting on representatives to vote for us.
A two house Republic system is meant to (in theory) have a lower house of representatives directly voted to office by the citizens to deal with the immediate emotional will of the people and then the upper house (the Senate in our case) is then meant to calming and judiciously ponder the lasting impact on their individual State. This is why Senators used to be chosen by the State Government and were not voted into office like a House Representative until the 1800s. They were not meant to be your representative, but that for your state. The President is then the final check for these new laws, with the power to veto them should he feel that the laws would harm the nation. The Senate then has the power to overturn a Veto by a 2/3rd vote, should they feel the need.
It's meant to be a way to make it very difficult to pass laws.
In reality, it's a three tier system of dick measuring and popularity contests, going back to the early 1800s, made worse by the direct citizen voting of Senators now allowing three bodies to buy citizen votes with empty promises.
As much of a shit show as it seems today, it's been this bad almost from the start. Instead of immigrants and judge's high school yearbooks, it was Indian affairs, slavery and the odd trade war with Great Britain.
/civics lesson
