@benroyce@mastodon.social @ReggieHere@mastodon.social @jawarajabbi@mastodon.online I suppose we in the UK tend to think that the two houses in the US are roughly equivalent to the houses of commons (elected members of parliament) and Lords (unelected permanent appointees of different governments). But the process of selection is very different. We don’t have primaries and each political party has its own method of choosing representatives.