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Because people want an excuse to blame our problems on, and people living in big cities think they should be able to better dictate law as they often view poor

Because people want an excuse to blame our problems on, and people living in big cities think they should be able to better dictate law as they often view poor rural people and their lives with contempt. And many politicians are happy to go along with because it means more power for themselves and less restrictions on how they use it. Real solutions to the imbalance would be to split up big states into more smaller states, but big states don't like that because it means they have less power as individual smaller states. And we have already have congressman holding far more power than they were originally meant to because they froze congressional count in the 1929 reapportionment act which means we only have 1/3 of the amount of congressman representatives we are suppose to have. The US political and legislative system has been corrupted beyond reason and this is just the next step to further consolidate political power and law into the hands of a few.

Tadpole9181 11mo ago
> people living in big cities think they should be able to better dictate law as they often view poor rural people and their lives with contempt. Or they want to live in a democracy where every single person is represented equally to every single other person. And not a system where some people are "more equal" to others. That's not even getting into how this weirdly, strangely seems to align up with a history of slavery and racism in the US. Total coincidence that some people think it's fair those "urban people" get 3/5 of a vote compared to them, the enlightened farmers who need to save others from themselves. And before you say "well the house and electoral college are proportional" - no, they absolutely are not since 1929. Try that talking point when the apportionment act is repealed. Nor are districts even conceivably "local" anymore for those arguing about "personal governance".

Tadpole9181 11mo ago

> people living in big cities think they should be able to better dictate law as they often view poor rural people and their lives with contempt. Or they want to live in a democracy where every single person is represented equally to every single other person. And not a system where some people are "more equal" to others. That's not even getting into how this weirdly, strangely seems to align up with a history of slavery and racism in the US. Total coincidence that some people think it's fair those "urban people" get 3/5 of a vote compared to them, the enlightened farmers who need to save others from themselves. And before you say "well the house and electoral college are proportional" - no, they absolutely are not since 1929. Try that talking point when the apportionment act is repealed. Nor are districts even conceivably "local" anymore for those arguing about "personal governance".