Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by whateveracct on Saturday November 07, 2020 @03:39PM
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Rural areas are not disenfranchised in the House though. If anything they're still over-represented because the House hasn't been allowed to scale with population.
Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by sagarm on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:23PM
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Translation: all votes are equal, but rural votes are more equal than others.
Therefore it's "just" for a house, senate, and president representing a minority of Americans to raise taxes on urban Americans (70% of the economy), refuse to fund our infrastructure (HSR and the gateway project), and impose their religious beliefs on us.
These self serving arguments aren't convincing anyone. What urban America has actually heard over the last four years is that "when you have the voted, you do what you want," a lesson we have taken to heart.
Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by amykyta on Saturday November 07, 2020 @03:56PM
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But they aren’t taxed without representation. In fact they are subsidized heavily. The very opposite.
Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by 8note on Saturday November 07, 2020 @03:55PM
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I see the winner take all situation for electoral college votes as disenfranchising minority views.
Both for the urban areas in "red" states and the rural areas in "blue" states.
The alternative is effectively disenfranchising rural areas. Remember that whole "no taxation without representation" thing a couple of centuries ago and how badly that turned out? Rural areas are where all the food, agricultural and mineral resources of the United States are produced, not to mention the source of the majority of its armed forces, so trying to disenfranchise them isn't going to end well.
And the minority isn't small either: the last time I checked, even in archetypically left-leaning California, about 1/3 of the vote went to Trump; for the other two west coast states, the tally was closer to 40%.
The answer, of course, is to focus on uniting the nation, not division, even if it means not all the changes people want happen as quickly as they would prefer. "Politics is the art of the possible" after all.