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That's the myth of democracy, yes. Glad to see there are still a few true believers. But in practice, 1/10^9 is the same as zero.
by atlantic 8y ago
That's the myth of democracy, yes. Glad to see there are still a few true believers. But in practice, 1/10^9 is the same as zero.
- alasdair_ 8y ago>But in practice, 1/10^9 is the same as zero Sadly, it's not even that - we don't have a popular vote, so not all votes have the same weight :(
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Sadly, it's not even that - we don't have a popular vote, so not all votes have the same weight The vast majority of elective public offices in the US are directly elected by popular vote.
- mikebenfield 8y agoEven when they are, that doesn't mean the people electing them have equal power. The 40,000,000 people of California elect two senators. The 500,000 people of Wyoming also elect two senators. A person in Wyoming literally has 80 times as much influence over the Senate as a person in California. And even in the House, where at least some effort is made to scale the number of representatives by population, California has only 53 representatives to Wyoming's 1, which still means each Wyoming resident has 1.5 times as much influence over the House as each California resident.