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Why do the empty acres of Wyoming need defense against ramrodding? Why isn't my town its own state, as a check against ramrodding country-wide legislation?
by gohrt 11y ago
Why do the empty acres of Wyoming need defense against ramrodding?
Why isn't my town its own state, as a check against ramrodding country-wide legislation?
- mac01021 11y agoThe empty acres of Wyoming need no such defense. The people of Wyoming do. There is are families of issues where which side of the debate a person is on correlates strongly with his/her geographic location. On those issues, without some kind of protection, people in the less populous places will lose every time. You could say that it's only fair for the majority to win all the time. But I've heard it said that a pure democracy is like 2 wolves and 1 sheep voting on what to eat for dinner, and that doesn't sound very just to me.