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> trust the ruling class Where did you get the idea that in this country, rural people aren’t ruling the country? Have you looked at the senate lately?
by an_opabinia 5y ago
> trust the ruling class
Where did you get the idea that in this country, rural people aren’t ruling the country? Have you looked at the senate lately?
- EricE 5y agoYes, equal representation is evil. How dare all Americans expect to have an equal voice!
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Yes, equal representation is evil. No, equal representation is good, but none of the Senate, the Electoral College, or the House of Representatives feature even roughly equal representation. (The largest house district by population is, IIRC, about 1.75× the size of the smallest, with the same representation, and the range of representation ratios in the other two bodies is much larger.)
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoUgh, this old trope again. Yes, the senate skews congress highly rural. That's the point. It was designed that way. Frankly it works just fine except when electing a president or when doing things at the federal level that should be done at the state level. At the state level, where most of the day to day stuff that affects people's lives is legislated the urban areas in any given state run the show unless the state is very, very, rural. Furthermore, class based distinctions are mostly separate and parallel from urban vs rural ones. Both the hick and the hoodrat know full well their elected representatives, whether they voted for or against them, are nothing like them.
- an_opabinia 5y agoPublic health emergencies exceed the limitations of your contrarianism.