Seriously, farmers are 5% of rural people. It's 2016. Anytime a coaster says rural, they might mean farmers, but they're describing dezinens of small cities and towns at a 19 to 1.
Great. Go change it. A good first step is to vote. As in do the simplest thing you can to engage in the process, something that most Americans didn't do in November.The solution is, therefore, to change this system.
.the USA is a federal system so that does not seem so bad if you want to protect the smaller and less populated states.
The problem is the winner-take-all nature of it, not the slight overrepresentation of small states vs large ones. Rust Belt states matter because they're split about 50-50, not because they're overrepresented in the EC - in fact, the larger ones are underrepresented.
Silurian argues we should be protecting states, i.e. land. I'm saying that, with a popular-vote system where the majority rules, then people are protected. In two out of the last five Presidential elections, the candidate with the fewest votes won. In our rush to protect "states," we're trampling the democratic principle of majority rule.
Great. Go change it. A good first step is to vote. As in do the simplest thing you can to engage in the process, something that most Americans didn't do in November.
The only non-violent means by which change can be effected in a democratic system is through engagement of the citizenry, Alanis.Ironically, I think a response like this is effectively a non-answer that demonstrates you aren't very interested in effecting change within the system.
The only non-violent means by which change can be effected in a democratic system is through engagement of the citizenry, Alanis.
I think this was a key takeaway of that election.Democrats should have campaigned harder, instead of seeing Clinton as a given.
I don't mean that in a taunting way. I mean dems really should have campaigned harder.
your self-image as a beleaguered, powerless victim is so central to your worldview
But in the meantime, you can trust me.
"republic" and "democracy" are not mutually exclusive, we're not in Civilization, only in forums talking about it.Except that america has never been a democracy. It's a representative republic. Usually the majority rules but not always.
Why would you be more concerned with protecting land than people?
Why would you be more concerned with protecting land than people?