Current Events > the women's marches are an excellent illustration of the problem the left has

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with winning in our fairly unrepresentative republic

from a strict population perspective the blue wave this fall is expected to be an order of 10% more democratic voters than GOP voters

but the places they're showing up in? already democratic party strongholds always and forever

cities have a dramatically lower influence on national politics than their populations suggest they should.

70% of americans live in cities, yet a majority of senate seats are held by states comprising about 30% of the US population; the average margin of victory in the house is 35% and especially high in urban areas as the voters have been packed in; the winner-take-all system of the EC means turnout improvement in DC/NYC/LA is utterly meaningless as those places were already decided and it's really Cincinnati and Philadelphia where you'd need a mass turnout.

there is an oft-cited argument that "we don't want cities to have all the power." but we also shouldn't want them to have none of it, yet the electoral strategies practiced on the state level have effectively stripped them of very nearly all their power and placed the vast majority of it in the hands of rural voters.

gerrymandering being ruled unconstitutional would undo some of this. "both sides do it" but republicans have done it far, far more effectively than democrats, and may hold the house even in the face of a truly gigantic democratic wave.
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Thing is if the people should have the power not the land. you shouldn't screw over a majority of the people because they live in cities. That is exactly what the people saying :We don't want cities to have all the power" are doing.
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Even now cities still have an advantage in elections because there are so many people there (and they tend to vote Democrat for whatever reason), and the government will tend to favor cities.

Giving people in rural areas more power allows them to be represented more in goernment
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Even now cities still have an advantage in elections

no, they do not.

Damn_Underscore posted...

Giving people in rural areas more power allows them to be represented more in goernment

they are massively over-represented.
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Darkman124 posted...

they are massively over-represented.

And they still don't have equal power to address their unique problems.
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darkjedilink posted...

Darkman124 posted...

they are massively over-represented.

And they still don't have equal power to address their unique problems.

how so
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