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meatball402 t1_j0vemf6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in On this date in 1787, the great state of New Jersey became the 3rd state to ratify the Constitution. Fun fact: States are given two senators in the US Senate thanks to William Patterson’s New Jersey Plan, where less populous states opposed giving control of the government to more populous states by rollotomasi07071

>Because otherwise those 576,851 would essentially have no representation at all and their interests would be ignored entirely. >

So your solution is to represent them at the expense of the (much) larger majority? How is that democratic?

>EDIT: Someone tell me a better system that also accounts for the needs of rural Americans. Otherwise your complaints are meaningless.

The rural Americans view is "they should be the only ones with represemtation", so there is no solution. Sorry, but your views are not the majoirty. That's called democracy.

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[deleted] t1_j0xf6n8 wrote

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meatball402 t1_j0xfwkb wrote

>Having an insult for rural Americans instead of a solution says a lot.

They insult me with their continued support of anti democratic processes so their views get priority over the majority. You straight up want to dictate to the majority with the senate.

People would respect you more if you were honest and said you wanted to get rid of democracy.

>Mostly that you think you’re better than them,

I never said I was better than them. Stop projecting.

>and yet you still cant present a solution.

Get rid of the senate. How's that for a solution.

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meatball402 t1_j0ych2t wrote

All you've done is stick words in my mouth and accuse me of things I've not said or done. I've never said I was better than them, or I knew more. You're not interested in debate. You want to attack me for holding crazy views like "whichever view has more votes, wins".

Take care

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