New Scenario: Violence 2000

[amadeus]

I like the Electoral College...it really gives balance back to the people, not just the metropolitan areas...

The people in Alaska, Montana, and other less populous states would have a hard time making an influence on the country if not for a more fair system...

 

[.:KNAS:.]

did anyone else notice that next to some of the larger cities the farmland or what ever its supposed to be is middle/lower class homes from simcity2000?

 

[Cluk]

It is well that the combined people of Hicksville, Nowhere have less effect on the government than the people of LA. Why should people in rural areas be more strongly weighted than people in urban areas? This is disproportionate and unfair - against what the US is founded on.

A person in Alaska should have the same say as a person in California.

 

[Ethics]

Then lets get rid of the Senate. Its not fair for the bigger population states.

Do you realize, it took all of "hickville" combine to trump a few areas in the US mainly metropolitian to win the election for Bush?

The worst thing we can do, is follow your ilthought out belief. I doubt most of America has the same agendas and needs then the California coast, the Northeast, and Florida.

The United States isnt a true democracy. We never have been. The US was founded on this belief that even though the majority is powerful, the minority isnt completely swallowed. This is why the electoral college is around. It would be completely disproportinate and unfair to exclude most of the nation for a few metropolitan areas. Im sorry you dont like Joe Farmer and friends, but tough city boy.

 

[King of England]

I enjoyed destroying Bush, Clinton, Nader, and Buchanan!! HA HA!! Vote for Gore!! (I was playing at Senator level and I got global wrming)

:soldier: :soldier: :tank: :soldier: :soldier:

 

[yelahneb]

Originally posted by xoque
Hmm.. its not working with my MGE.. probably just doing something wrong. I dunno

same here, xoque - has anyone here actually played the scenerio?

 

[IceCascades]

I've played it. Damn good scenario! I played as Buchanan and wiped Gore from the face of the earth.

 

[Cluk]

Originally posted by Ethics
Then lets get rid of the Senate. Its not fair for the bigger population states.

Agreed! Let's!

The United States isnt a true democracy. We never have been.

Huh? It's a republic.

The US was founded on this belief that even though the majority is powerful, the minority isnt completely swallowed.

Tryranny by the majority is bad - tyranny by the minority is worse. A (modern) government governs by the mandate of the people, not by the fiat of a well-informed elite.

Of course, the US would be a better place if all citizens had a good knowledge of government and politics so they didn't vote based on the pitiful catchphrases of the election ads. With better voter education, we wouldn't have to worry about being left to the whims of the lowest common denominator.

Oh, and those are sc2000 luxury homes.

 

[Ethics]

Where would Hillary go then!?

Democratic Republic to be precise. We don't exactly vote for everything that goes through the house and senate. We elect representatives for a lot of sects of the government.

Educated voters sounds like an impossible dream to me. Voter Apathy and lack of concern for the government are roots of this problem among others. Then again, Its not like we didn't have more then 50% of the population voting in the 19teens.

Personally, I think the country is doing fine the way it is. Hey, its not perfect and I could get into my political beliefs of what I believe is wrong but thats irrelevant. The system we have today works well. The electoral college wasn't a problem until a man named Gore screamed bloody murder(and oppurtunists like Hillary Clinton pandered to the ignorant) The only flaw I have in it is that we elect people to actually be the votes. I think they should be automatic but I digress.

Anyway, lets stop the "fussin and a feudin" and get back to the rest of the people in ragging how Civ3 is dissapointing in some aspects =P

 

[al]

Under the electoral college, NY state got 31 votes in 2000, for its population of 18.97 million people. That's around 612,000 people per vote.

The 6 New England states, with only 13.93 million people, had 34 electoral votes. That's 410,000 people per vote.

Wyoming, with 493k people, had 3 votes, or 164,000 people per vote.

Each Wyoming residents' vote was worth almost 4 times a New Yorker's vote in 2000.