Should Rural Votes be Weighted Against Urban Votes?

[Torrocca]

So how about that equal representation for ruralites and urbanites, eh fellas?

One man, one vote. No rural votes, no rural people. Urbanise the countryside.

SEIZE THE MEANS OF URBANIZATION

[Kubra]

One man, one vote. No rural votes, no rural people. Urbanise the countryside.

Lol

It's that or import migrant labour, take your pick.

[San Lumen]

Yes, I agree, rural folk should get precisely the same number of votes are urban folk.

You don't understand representation much, do you?

And you do?

[Bakery Hill]

So how about that equal representation for ruralites and urbanites, eh fellas?

One man, one vote. No rural votes, no rural people. Urbanise the countryside.

reverse pol pot now

[Kramanica]

Lol

It's that or import migrant labour, take your pick.

How do you urbanize a town with like 200 people?

[Kubra]

One man, one vote. No rural votes, no rural people. Urbanise the countryside.

SEIZE THE MEANS OF URBANIZATION

abolition of all the distinction between town and country by abolishing the country
that was deffo in the manifesto

[Sougra]

So how about that equal representation for ruralites and urbanites, eh fellas?

One man, one vote. No rural votes, no rural people. Urbanise the countryside.

What about the Natives and the Amish? They live in rural areas. Also, urbanizing the countryside would probably destroy the agriculture industry because not even hydroponics and aquaponics farms replace and produce the level of food necessary to feed an entire nation and help export the national food. You'd also be killing a lot of species that may live there. Urbanizing the countryside doesn't seem like a good answer to the problem for me, my friend.

[Kramanica]

You don't understand representation much, do you?

And you do?

Evidently better than you do.

[Freezic Vast]

You don't understand representation much, do you?

And you do?

More than you do apparently.

[San Lumen]

It's that or import migrant labour, take your pick.

How do you urbanize a town with like 200 people?

You don’t. People are leaving those towns in favor of cities but somehow that town is entitled to more representation than a city of several hundred thousand or a million

[Torrocca]

You don't understand representation much, do you?

And you do?

There's a reason we have bicameral legislatures at both the state (except Nebraska, fuckin' Nebraska) and federal level.

[Kubra]

It's that or import migrant labour, take your pick.

How do you urbanize a town with like 200 people?

The same way natural resource extraction is urbanised: 2 weeks in and 1 week off to blow it all on cocaine and fast cars.

[The Lone Alliance]

Glad I caught this thread. We have a somewhat similar problem here in Virginia.

The crux of it is the lack of a Republican urban policy. You couldn't raise taxes and government spending high enough to fix the ills of places like Detroit, Camden, Chicago, etc. The GOP needs to devise a private sector-driven, tax abatement-induced, blueprint for taking on urban blight. Clearly the classic Democratic Party way has been an abject failure.

ok
so what does that mean

"Something something tax and spend is bad something"

I think they're saying that the Republican Party needs an urban strategy instead simply handing the Urban vote over to Democrats.

Thing is, that's kind of a hard strategy, sure they could go all in on social issues and maybe win over some of the urban well off and the urban rich, but that'd piss off the Religious right, and the Republican opposition to Welfare means they have little chance of winning over the Urban poor who make use of such things.

Problem is I think some cities like Detroit are utterly unfixable no matter what party takes power.

[San Lumen]

And you do?

There's a reason we have bicameral legislatures at both the state (except Nebraska, fuckin' Nebraska) and federal level.

And state senators represent districts as well. Nebraska elects it’s legislators by district too

[Farnhamia]

And you do?

There's a reason we have bicameral legislatures at both the state (except Nebraska, fuckin' Nebraska) and federal level.

On the other hand, Nebraska hands out its electoral votes based on winning the congressional district, so ...

[Freezic Vast]

How do you urbanize a town with like 200 people?

You don’t. People are leaving those towns in favor of cities but somehow that town is entitled to more representation than a city of several hundred thousand or a million

Except in Cali, where there was a bit of a mass exodus from the urban areas like San Fran.

[Kramanica]

How do you urbanize a town with like 200 people?

You don’t. People are leaving those towns in favor of cities but somehow that town is entitled to more representation than a city of several hundred thousand or a million

Are bicameral legislatures that heretical to you?

[Conserative Morality]

You don't understand representation much, do you?

I understand it perfectly. Is there something about it that confuses you? You seem terribly lost.

[Freezic Vast]

There's a reason we have bicameral legislatures at both the state (except Nebraska, fuckin' Nebraska) and federal level.

On the other hand, Nebraska hands out its electoral votes based on winning the congressional district, so ...

And so does Maine, for some reason. Explains why Trump won an electoral vote there.

[Torrocca]

There's a reason we have bicameral legislatures at both the state (except Nebraska, fuckin' Nebraska) and federal level.

On the other hand, Nebraska hands out its electoral votes based on winning the congressional district, so ...

I still question that state's existence.

There's a reason we have bicameral legislatures at both the state (except Nebraska, fuckin' Nebraska) and federal level.

And state senators represent districts as well. Nebraska elects it’s legislators by district too

And? The state senators are giving their districts equal representation.

[The Lone Alliance]

You don’t. People are leaving those towns in favor of cities but somehow that town is entitled to more representation than a city of several hundred thousand or a million

Except in Cali, where there was a bit of a mass exodus from the urban areas like San Fran.

Ironically they're moving to states and bringing their politics with them causing their new neighbors to hate their guts.

[Bakery Hill]

How do you urbanize a town with like 200 people?

You don’t. People are leaving those towns in favor of cities but somehow that town is entitled to more representation than a city of several hundred thousand or a million

That seems a little hyperbolic.

[Conserative Morality]

Then the minority voice is drowned out, leading to discontent and the collapse of the common project. A compromise between separate units is the basis of all federalism everywhere.

The minority voice is always drowned out. The only question is which minority it is.

[Kramanica]

You don't understand representation much, do you?

I understand it perfectly. Is there something about it that confuses you? You seem terribly lost.

No, you don't. Having a vote doesn't actually mean your voice is heard in any meaningful way, and you inevitably end up having your decisions made for you by people who don't give a fuck about you, don't understand you and don't want to. Which is the point.

So, no, you don't understand it perfectly. Glad we could clear that up.

[Torrocca]

Except in Cali, where there was a bit of a mass exodus from the urban areas like San Fran.

Ironically they're moving to states and bringing their politics with them causing their new neighbors to hate their guts.

Oh God, it's a zombie apocalypse! The Bay Area Smug Liberalism infection is spreading!