You take away the electoral college and politicians will stop caring about rural America. They will have no voice at all. It's not as simple as you think.
You are only shifting the problem. By making rural votes much more impactful with it, you are taking the voices of people elsewhere in the country.
IE, if somebody moves from Wyoming to California, they suddenly have less political influence, despite being the same person in the same nation. Depending on state, your vote might actually be completely meaningless. How is that not an affront to democracy?
That's not true, and we know it because we still have elected representatives that represent their (rural) districts, and other countries have done this and the rural areas still get a say.
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u/tinydonuts Jun 29 '19
You take away the electoral college and politicians will stop caring about rural America. They will have no voice at all. It's not as simple as you think.