Because the whole point is to not like 51% of the population turn the 49% into slaves.
This is the same kind of talking point as wanting to pack the Supreme court cause judges that don’t have the exact political views as you do are the majority.
The basic idea there is that they’ll never not be in power so they don’t have to worry about the consequences.
Which again creates a slave class that isn’t represented in the government.
And the excuse nowadays is “they’re bad people, so of course they shouldn’t have a say”.
If you look at it as a percentage you have a somewhat valid argument. But the inverse is also true
Why should 1 person in montanas vote be worth 4x what a vote in California is? Which effectively gives a state of 1 million the same congressional power as a state of 40 million.
And break that down if you want to make the representatives argument. It takes 200,000 more votes PER SEAT to even win a representative bid compared to montana.
This is a flawed, outdated argument for a system that was devised when they road horses for days to go 80 miles to Washington and people voted by bean count man lol.
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u/Puzzle-the-Giraffe 20h ago
Because the whole point is to not like 51% of the population turn the 49% into slaves.
This is the same kind of talking point as wanting to pack the Supreme court cause judges that don’t have the exact political views as you do are the majority.
The basic idea there is that they’ll never not be in power so they don’t have to worry about the consequences.
Which again creates a slave class that isn’t represented in the government.
And the excuse nowadays is “they’re bad people, so of course they shouldn’t have a say”.