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Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha... by JdeBP on Monday March 24, 2025 @06:44AM (#43459400)
Bear in mind that the President of the United States is not directly elected by a popular vote. The mathematics of who gets the largest voice are distorted, intentionally so by the Framers. They did not want low-population agrarian states to be permanently in effect disenfranchised.

It is ironic after all of these decades of originalism being seen as a reactionary thing against minorities that the Framers put positive discrimination for (economic and geographic) minorities into the Constitution explicitly to prevent "tyranny of the majority".

The U.S.A. is full of such ironies at the moment.

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Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha... by hypeatei on Monday March 24, 2025 @07:31AM (#43459708)
> explicitly to prevent "tyranny of the majority"

Yep, as if tyranny of the minority is better. Of course Republicans think it's good because it gets them elected but this country is regressing because of the status quo.

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Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha... by chgs on Monday March 24, 2025 @12:58PM (#43463094)
When the framers were setting out their ideas the rural states had large populations. However the framers declared great swathes of them to be worth 60% of others.
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