@MontereyJack,
Quote:When the country was founded, it was 90% rural and 10% urban. Now those proportions are pretty much reversed, 10% rural and 90% urban.
It's actually closer to 80 and 20, according to census figures. One in five people are rural-based.
Quote: Small and underpoppulated states already are disproportionately represented in the senate.
I would suggest that corporations are the ones disproportionately represented.
Quote: Why should the office of the president, who represents EVERYBO DY be dominated by the the small minority as well?
What difference would HRC in the position make? She's as far from a representative of the people as anyone could get, while still pretending to be liberal.
Quote:One person, one vote.
Then you'd have to make voting mandatory, which we have in Australia, the result being a handful of far-right lunatics are pulling the strings.
Quote:And equating democracy with mob rule is an absurdly simplistic, FLATLY WRONG, loopy right wing meme.
Many political pundits and philosophical types would disagree. And BTW, I'd probably fit better with a label like "progressive". It's a pity the people didn't have any progressives to vote for this time around.
Quote:We live in what is more or less a representative, constitutional democracy. Everybody can vote
But only half the people could be bothered. There was simply no good choice on the ballot.
Quote:The trouble is The loudest most intoleratn people subvert the will of the people as determined by the popular vote.
Then explain how this same system saw prez Obama in the job. Twice.
Quote:What ww are about to be living in is Trumpism, and thatr's the real mob rule, not democracy.
There were two corp0rate puppets on the ticket. That's not a choice, and it's certainly not any form of democracy. It's the lesser of two evils, and that's how Obama got the nod, twice.
