This is exactly why the electoral college system is useless and needs to be replaced
“Los Angeles county should have a bigger say on issues than states that have entirely different problems, mostly agriculture and poverty induced as they’re flyover country, simply because there’s more people crammed into a county than there are people growing food.”
Sounds like classism to me but okay.
YES.
Because that’s what democracy is! Omfg it’s like Americans have Stockholm syndrome for every horrible facet of the country! Perhaps the “solution” to people having different problems (?!?!?) isn’t a small segment of the population having complete power over all other parts? Just a thought?
im never going to get over “yes, classism is what democracy is” for as long as i live.
okay. let me put this in a european analogy. let’s say that, for every country that is a member of the european union, they get one vote per citizen on issues that affect the union and that the countries need union help to handle.
and we’ll say that there’s a random amount of countries in the european union are all experiencing a problem. let’s say that these are the countries and these are their populations,
now, we’ll say that germany, france, italy, and spain (not uk bc they’ve left),
they don’t have this problem. and, quite frankly, they don’t want to put the money towards this issue, because that’s expensive and it doesn’t effect them.
and for the sake of the argument, let’s say everyone votes in favor of their country, as it’s a direct democracy and whatnot. germany, france, italy, and spain get 257 million votes in their favor, while the other 23 countries only got 169 million votes.
that means 23 countries in need of help from the union were ignored and left to fend for themselves simply because the issues of the majority of the union didn’t effect four countries.
and because we are the UNITED states of america, we need everyone to have a voice in their issues, even if that means that some people get megaphones to be heard. Because otherwise, we’d have the vast majority of states being silenced on their issues, simply because three states with high density disagree.
i’d also like to point out that my state? higher population than finland. an entire country’s worth of people, one that fended off a soviet invasion 80 years back, in one little state of farmers and fishers, and it would be ignored because a county the size of sweden on the oceanic coast doesn’t understand or care about the issues that are faced by farmers in the midwest.
we are the united states. not the united people. and we have shit like this in place so that millions of people aren’t ruled by people who will not and will never try to understand the issues they face. that’s why we need the electoral college.
@enigmatic-fool You should know: The United States has never, and will never, be a democracy. We’re a Constitutional Republic.
@the-davest-of-uncles @robert-the-redhead-lover
FUCKING
THANK YOU
Modern access to information has created people who have just enough info to think they have valid views while being complete idiots on a topic. It’s kinda terrifying.
OP like “Let’s organize America like the Hunger Games!”
notice that @enigmatic-fool doesnt actually suggest any solution to vast swathes of rural areas having completely different needs & problems than major coastal cities. first we disenfranchise them, then when theyve been stripped of any functional political power & their lands have been decimated by arrogant coastal urbanites who have repeatedly shown that theyre far more ignorant of whats outside their bubble than the rurals (because the media already caters mainly to them) THEN we can worry about how to address the inequity.
of course the reality is that such an inequity would either not be addressed for many decades at best, if ever, because there would suddenly be no political motivation to do so.
