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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This rural-places-are-dying-and-cities-are-happening thing has been happening since forever. Dickens got several novels out of it. The American twist on it is to give each rural voter as many Senators as the City of Los Angeles, although this is not so new, either.
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A states’ rights advocate would argue this is the result of a too strong federal govt. In a more states’ rights’ oriented system, there wouldn’t be so much push to control one’s neighbors.
The down side of that is, of course, you’re neighboring state might decide it wants to jail women for having abortions. Hence the need for a robust fed govt to keep the crazy states in check.
Ya can’t win. The founders tried admirably, but it all rested on good faith. We’ve none of that since Gingrich.
That fat little fuck hacked the whole thing and infected it with a fatal virus. Amazing. Thankfully, history will nevertheless ignore him.
