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PhiloBlackCardinal t1_j2slm2p wrote

Reply to comment by Fit-Anything8352 in Healey should give rural Massachusetts a seat at the table - The Boston Globe by GlobeOpinion

> Why would anyone in America think their vote should matter more than others?

You should ask yourself this question. Everyone's vote should count the same. One vote is one vote. I don't know what's so hard to understand here. Less people live in rural areas, so naturally, their votes combined should count as less to fairly represent population. If more people lived in farms than cities, the system should stay the same.

Your argument is literally "all votes should be equal, but if everyone has equal votes that bad because rural populations get underrepresented".

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Fit-Anything8352 t1_j2smwjt wrote

> Your argument is literally "all votes should be equal, but if everyone has equal votes that bad because rural populations get underrepresented".

The argument for the electoral college is "all states should have equal representation." The United States is a union of states, not a single state of 330 million people(the US is not Switzerland). If you vote by population, a state with a high population has more say in the election than one with a small population, it doesn't even have anything to do with urban vs rural.

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PhiloBlackCardinal t1_j2so2yq wrote

The electoral college was a useful tool in the pre-Civil War era of US politics. The era when the federal government was nearly non-existent. Post-Civil War, it makes no sense. It's not 1850 anymore, states don't control the majority of functions in our daily lives. The Federal Government does.

States where more people live should have more of a say than states where no one lives. One person = one vote. It goes against the principles this country was founded on to believe otherwise.

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Fit-Anything8352 t1_j2sos73 wrote

What? States do control the majority of functions in your daily life. Traffic laws, physical infrastructure, medical care, health insurance, water supply, electricity, education, etc. are all controlled by state law.

The federal government has very little say in anybody's day to day life.

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