I think many of us don't know what to do anymore. A majority of Americans already know what you've written, and we don't like it. But for some very complicated reasons, what most Americans want doesn't count politically for much anymore, if it ever did, I don't know.

One part of the problem is the disproportionate power wielded by senators representing a very small minority of the American people. The Republican party is mostly to blame, but Democratic senators are a problem too.

Joe Manchin, for example, who blocks gun reform and all kinds of other things most Americans badly want, represents a tiny number of people in West Virginia. I mean tiny. Yet his vote counts exactly as much as a senator from California or New York with populations that make West Virginia look like a mountain village, which it kind of is.

Republican senators out west in states with tiny populations are as big of a problem. They wield enormous power even though the vast majority of the American people revile their values. (And the big money smart corporations invest in them.)

Our political system is beyond broken and I don't know if there's any solution in sight. The game is rigged.