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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: one_less who wrote (5326)1/9/2017 10:54:55 AM
From: Cautious_Optimist  Read Replies (2) of 356295
 
What nags at me is the lack of our one-person-one-vote system to keep up with demographic shifts.

Less populated states are given disproportional power in the senate and the electoral college.

This should be THE REAL TEA PARTY OUTRAGE; taxation without representation. Today, states like New York, California and New Jersey subsidizing over-represented states like Wyoming, or South Dakota who receives twice the federal return of (tax-outflow outflow) California, with almost 2X as much power/per capita in the electoral college.

Urban Industrial progressive America subsidizing disproportionally powerful rural states dominated by K Street commanded partisan new age Republicans. Lack of one-vote/person in federal elections... is a partisan situation that has led to a one-party state. (The Democrats are a big tent and broad political bandwidth party who could not and did not try to exploit their power trifecta as the Republicans are planning.)

It was wonderful when the patriotic Tea Party and Ted Nugent waved AR-15s,and talked about how terrible our federal government was, especially the illegitimate Islamic communist Obama who was absolutely coming for the firearms with federal employees.

Now that they are coming into total power they have no ability for FACT BASED criticism of their own Politicians and the corrupt, inept, America-weakening BS they are propagating. The ultimate flipflop. Total confirmation bias, willful blindness. Complete disrespect and Orwellian treatment toward moderately progressive precedents and specifically, Barack Obama's eight years.
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