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> What rights are being trampled on here? That's really not that hard of a question to answer, if you're willing to have some empathy and look at things from s

> What rights are being trampled on here? That's really not that hard of a question to answer, if you're willing to have some empathy and look at things from someone else's point of view. I say that as someone who has always lived in a large city. Clearly, it's the rights of small communities, with significant material and cultural differences from large cities, to have a degree of self-determination and a real say in how they are governed. Your choice of words shows a view that it's somehow unjust for these communities not to be dominated by distant, populous, and likely unsympathetic overlords.

gnaritas 9y ago
Please stop talking about land and talk about people. Urban voters are the ones who deserve empathy, they're the ones being put upon by rural voters. You talk as if the rural voters are the victims here, they are not, they are the minority that is currently privileged by having far more say in the system than they should have because their votes count for more than an urban vote. Why don't you have some sympathy for the majority who is being disenfranchised by a screwed up system? > Your choice of words shows a view that it's somehow unjust for these communities not to be dominated by distant, populous, and likely unsympathetic overlords. Yes, like how small towns are dominating the politics of cities by being heavily favored in elections, oh those poor small towns. Tyranny of the minority indeed. Small communities aren't being trampled upon, they're the ones doing the trampling. A fair system would be one where everyone's vote is equal, not one where people count less because they live too closely together. Rural voters currently have far far too much power given their numbers. A vote in Wyoming is worth 3.6 votes in California, and you're claiming small towns are the victims? Really?
- DashRattlesnake 9y ago
  > Small communities aren't being trampled upon, they're the ones doing the trampling. lol. You have an hilariously parochial point of view.
  - gnaritas 9y ago
    Perhaps you forgot the question, and your answer >> What rights are being trampled on here? > Clearly, it's the rights of small communities, with significant material and cultural differences from large cities, to have a degree of self-determination and a real say in how they are governed. Your choice of words shows a view that it's somehow unjust for these communities not to be dominated by distant, populous, and likely unsympathetic overlords. That's rich and hilariously wrong. My choice of words reflected the original question.

gnaritas 9y ago

Please stop talking about land and talk about people. Urban voters are the ones who deserve empathy, they're the ones being put upon by rural voters. You talk as if the rural voters are the victims here, they are not, they are the minority that is currently privileged by having far more say in the system than they should have because their votes count for more than an urban vote. Why don't you have some sympathy for the majority who is being disenfranchised by a screwed up system? > Your choice of words shows a view that it's somehow unjust for these communities not to be dominated by distant, populous, and likely unsympathetic overlords. Yes, like how small towns are dominating the politics of cities by being heavily favored in elections, oh those poor small towns. Tyranny of the minority indeed. Small communities aren't being trampled upon, they're the ones doing the trampling. A fair system would be one where everyone's vote is equal, not one where people count less because they live too closely together. Rural voters currently have far far too much power given their numbers. A vote in Wyoming is worth 3.6 votes in California, and you're claiming small towns are the victims? Really?

DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Small communities aren't being trampled upon, they're the ones doing the trampling. lol. You have an hilariously parochial point of view.
- gnaritas 9y ago
  Perhaps you forgot the question, and your answer >> What rights are being trampled on here? > Clearly, it's the rights of small communities, with significant material and cultural differences from large cities, to have a degree of self-determination and a real say in how they are governed. Your choice of words shows a view that it's somehow unjust for these communities not to be dominated by distant, populous, and likely unsympathetic overlords. That's rich and hilariously wrong. My choice of words reflected the original question.