Re: The Joy Of Democracy

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:59:24 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2024-10-24 3:19 p.m., rbowman wrote:

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:35:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:53:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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On 2024-10-23 2:56 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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If you mean “large cities”, those are in fact the backbone of your
economy. The US isn’t an agrarian society any more.
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Why should the value of someone’s vote depend on where they live?

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If the people in those "large cities" do not receive food, what will
happen to them?

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They won’t be able to make the machines that the farmers use to farm
their crops. There would be no electricity generation or fuel supply,
no manufacturing of farmhouses, no laying of roads for the trucks to
supply feed and fertilizer and seed and take away produce. Nobody to
pay the farmers. Nobody to educate them on how to grow their crops.
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The whole system collapses.

Now that we’ve established that none of you lameass Dumbfuckistanis have
the slightest clue how agriculture fits into a modern industrial economy,
can we get back to the question I originally asked?

Namely, if you consider all your citizens to be “created equal”, why do
you not count their votes equally?