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> Major cities are dictating policy for everyone else. Cities contain large quantities of people -- that's why they are called population centers. Large number
by darklion 4y ago
> Major cities are dictating policy for everyone else.
Cities contain large quantities of people -- that's why they are called population centers. Large numbers of people generate lots of votes. As compared to locations with fewer amounts of people, cities will have an outsided influence on the outcome of elections.
How else do you want it to work? Normalize vote weight by acreage?
- tablespoon 4y ago> Cities contain large quantities of people -- that's why they are called population centers. Large numbers of people generate lots of votes. As compared to locations with fewer amounts of people, cities will have an outsided influence on the outcome of elections. > How else do you want it to work? Normalize vote weight by acreage? You're implicitly assuming something like a single central authority. I think the idea would be to have more local control, so your local conditions aren't controlled by some distant group that has no concern for them. If the decisions are being made far enough away, there's not that much practical difference between a king and a "population center." Focusing too much on population gets you a tyranny of the majority.