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divot1338 posted...

I feel quite confident that corporate farms will want to sell their products to millions of people located in the cities.

Besides as you point out small farmers will obviously supply the smaller population of rural America.

Why compete over the scraps when they have a huge market available to them in cities?

Yes, large farms can continue to supply urban areas, and small farms can continue to supply rural areas. That isnt the point of what Im saying.

The electoral college protects the voters, who vote in ways that will that will not only protect their income, but the actual farm itself. The land. The ability to even grow food or raise livestock in the first place. Thats why I listed examples such as uninformed environmental regulation and FDRs New Deal.

Without the Electoral College, urban centers are determining everything in the entire country. People who lived their entire lives in NYC and LA and have no idea what rural even means, or what a farm requires, or where their food comes from, are by default going to vote for things that prioritize urban life, because thats all they know. Im not trying to rag on urban life or city slickers or whatever, and Im not trying to suggest theyre idiots or something.

But thats exactly what the electoral college is for - Its not specifically to protect a conservatives shitty beliefs on abortion or gay marriage. Thats an extremely unfortunate side effect. The electoral college protects the actual, genuine, and necessary things that conservatives statistically bring more of - Such as farming, manufacturing, truck drivers, and the trades like construction and plumbing.

If you only ever have democratic policies passed and only democratic presidents elected, you will start losing in *huge* industries. Thats what the electoral college is for.