On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:12:29 -0000, wrote:

On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:56:48 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:20:44 -0000, wrote:

On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:52:54 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:46:30 -0000, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:30:49 -0600, #NoDAPL
wrote:



So the alternative is to grant land the right to vote? Strange. I don't
think you guys have thought this through.

This is the "United STATES of America. It was designed to be a union
of states, not a oligarchy ruled by overcrowded coastal cities. Each
state has power, just because it os a state and that shows up in the
Senate and the Electoral College. Since the federal government started
taking our money and dispersing it from DC, there are few other state
powers, even over matters that never leave the state.

Votes should be PER PERSON. Nothing else makes sense. No one person is more important than another.

We do not want the feudal system like you folks had in England where
the people in the castle dictated terms to everyone outside the wall.
Perhaps that is not an issue in a small well populated place like UK
but things that make perfect sense in New York City are just stupid in
Wyoming and the people in Wyoming want a say about what the feds
mandate for them.
(hence the US Senate and the EC)

The whole country is to get one government. The whole country only ends up with one choice. If you have 50 million folk in one state and 10 million in another, why would you say the 50 million are 5 times less important?

The idea of "states" seems to evade you. If the federal government was
not so intrusive it would not really be that big an issue but if we
had direct elections, 10% of the country would be ruling the other 90%
simply because of their fetid population density in the cities.

When you say 10%, do you mean 10% of the number of people, or 10% of the area? The vote should always be per number of people. If 90% of you live in one half of the country, and 10% in the other half, why the hell should the two groups get equal votes?

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A pool table.