President Obama's New Redistricting Organization
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but do you even understand how democracy works? why would the people in low populated states have a relative voting power of four times the voting power of the people in california? that's just not how a democracy should work in my opinion. then again, i know alt right people have trouble understanding why EQUALITY is actually beneficial for all.
this video isnt directly related to equality but its in the same neighborhood:
You must be totally clueless that you can't understand how a couple of major cities and California (southern 1/3rd) would rule the US in a popular vote for the President.
Do you really think people living in cities care about farmers and those living in small town America? I have lived in a small town and major cities. City people are greedy and only think about themselves.
We already see people in non-city areas being forgotten, under the current system. It would be far worse if the President was only chosen by the major cities.
The US is 228 bigger than Denmark and is far more mixed than. 350+ million people vs 5.6 million people.
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Obama needs to go away. Imagine how butt hurt you and your fellow lunatics would be if GWB and other former Presidents constant criticized Obama while he was President.
MAGA isn't about white supremacy, except to lunatics. It's about the US having manufacturing in all sectors like we used to have. It's about ending NAFTA. It's about getting all NATO nations to pay their legal obligations of 2% of GDP, instead of letting them pay as little as nothing and the US topping up NATO's funds.
I don't know the economics of manufacturing, but … do you genuinely believe that US can reclaim its manufacturing base in all sectors like the past? I feel like the boat has sailed, and countries with lower manufacturing bases and looser environmental regulations will underprice any US manufacturing. I feel like the people who say this have a very naive view of the world (and this is not a criticism at you, but a general observation). Capitalism will always source goods and materials with the cheapest labor and materials. That's just how capitalism works. Does a company want to hire a $35 / hr American who wants paid family leave, full medical / dental / vision healthcare, and employee benefits like disability insurance versus an $8 / hr Chinese who is grateful to be sending money to his family home. Does the American actually want to plug a widget into a gizmo for 12 hours a day, live in substandard company housing, and get paid $8 / hr?? And even if the US President wants to try to move manufacturing back to America via tariffs, it would STILL be cheaper to make it in China, transport it across an ocean, and add tariffs. I think America needs to have a serious discussion about what is possible, versus constantly trying to relive a glorified view of the past. That stymies us from having real and difficult conversations about what it'll take for us to be a continuing leader in new technologies and industries.
As an American, I am all for a strong America. I'm for strong borders, I'm for making allies pay their fair share for us to police their shit neighborhoods, I'm for fair trade where countries don't rip our intellectual property. But I'm also for a hard look at how we actually evaluate our future options in a realistic manner.
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If we reverse the benefits of sending jobs outside of the US, then we can reclaim many of our manufacturing jobs. Ending NAFTA was a great step in that. NAFTA gave special rights to Mexico and Canada, that the US didn't get. Canada got to protect several of its industries from NAFTA and Mexico was allowed to keep its low workplace standards, among others. Trudeau called it racist when Trump said that Mexico needed to have the same workplace standards as the US and Canada. Seems like its Trudeau's racism of low expectations that's the problem.
When I lived in Houston, I saw the shitty trucks coming up from Mexico that would be illegal without NAFTA.
