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Which is literally a bias against democracy.

States are not fixed entities. It's people that should be represented, not an arbitrary geographic boundary.

That intentional design makes it so depending on where you physically live, your vote is worth many times less or more than someone else's. That makes no sense.



Please bone up on government design. Democracy sucks, it’s majority rule. We’re a republic that is intentionally designed to provide balance rather than “51% voted to spend 99% of the budget on the cities so I guess rural folks can pound sand”.

Note that pretty much every country has something similar - some body that acts on a check of pure democratic representation.


Ah, yes, instead we should have 35% voted to end civil rights for an entire group but they live in more land, so 65% can pound sand.

Much better.


But it’s not ending civil rights? The legislature is still free to pass laws protecting abortion. All the heavily blue states that support abortion won’t see any change at all.


It is in fact, ending civil rights for hundreds of millions of people.




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