I don't consider it a democracy if you can win a vote based on the amount of seats you have.
if the seats are fairly distributed in proportion to a popular vote then it is completely a democracy.
So if republicans have 200 seats and democrats have 190 seats
Theoretically since republicans (all 200 of them) could unanimously vote for either yes/no they'll win each vote 100% of the time, doesn't matter what democrats vote for.
basically yeah, which is why a seats system doesn't work with a two party system. same thing goes for elections. there's one constituency in the UK that won a conservative seat by a majority of 7 votes so that seat is completely polarised in theory but belongs to one party. seats are good if there's more than two parties
What kind of backwards voting process is this? Both parties should have equal number of seats so this doesn't happen.
that's such a stupid idea. if the democrats get 59,999,999 votes and the republicans get 1 they should still have the same amount of senators and congressmen? that would be rigged af cause i swear if congress is in a deadlock then the speaker of the house gets to decide or something like that. besides it would cancel itself out as it would be impossible to reach a supermajority with 50/50 lol