When Weakness Prevails, Show Them The Meaning of Strength

[mickeycrimm]

My comments had nothing to do with oil. It has to do with our system of representation which is just flawed all around. It has lots of things going for it but a lot of issues.

I have been meaning to read about all the pipeline stuff you mentioned in another post, but that was a different thread of conversation.

From what i can tell the #1 and pretty much sole purpose of corporations is to make as much money as possible. If corporate behavior can be explained by that you rarely need a conspiracy involving electric cars.

The state I live in is definitely one of the larger ones so it is the one who takes the hit on the power per citizen in the Senate. We also do tons of relevant things. There are some midwest states that barely do anything but farm and far far fewer people, but somehow they get the same number of Senators. Those are the irrelevant hick states. They have no centers of innovation. NY, CA, TX all have plenty of innovation outside of corn growin'.

You have 2 senate seats and 38 congressional seats. States like Wyoming and Delaware have 2 senate seats and 1 congressional seat.

And ? The voting power of these small states still far outmatches their population. They should not have near the power they do when creating legislation. I've heard the rationalizations, but ultimately their population is given far more power per capita. It is rubbish. Maybe it made sense during the Founding Fathers but the cracks are starting to show.

It goes far beyond number X vs number Y.

So just a few states should dominate the country?