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> How does that work once the idiots are in charge of the budget?

Society collapses and we become a failed state - but states fail all the time, universal suffrage appears to minimize the number of states that need to fail.

> Well it does. The confusion is about what you’re voting for.

When it comes to voting for president, my vote as a Vermonter is objectively worth 2.63 times as much as my friend from Washington - additionally the FPTP voting approach and winner take-all electoral college causes a lot of other oddities that make my VT vote essentially worthless when compared with a resident of PA.

There are a few ways we break 1 person 1 vote equivalence and while we can argue whether that's a good or bad thing you can't argue against it being the case.

parent munk-a 6 years ago

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