My gut reaction to dealing with the rural districts is to reduce their paradoxically outsized impact on national elections for President and Congress. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a voice. They should, but their frankly backward, folksy, conservative values must not be allowed to stagnate the…
My gut reaction to dealing with the rural districts is to reduce their paradoxically outsized impact on national elections for President and Congress. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a voice. They should, but their frankly backward, folksy, conservative values must not be allowed to stagnate the progress typically initiated in the urban areas. The outsized power of the underpopulated rural states (e.g. Wyoming, Montana) having the same number of senators as the more populous and more urban states (e.g. California, New York) is why Trump/MAGA have held us all in a choke-hold.
I and others seek a solution to this outmoded representation model, but the only actions to be taken near term are: 1) to change the Presidential election to a popular national vote total, doing away with the electoral college, and 2) granting statehood to Washington DC and ideally Puerto Rico. Those changes would go a long way.
However, all that said, there must be federal legislation to drive greater education to and inclusion of rural concerns.
A girl can dream.
Thank you again for your essay. It also got me rethinking the lessons of Gilgamesh, which is now want to re-read, as it has been a couple years.☺️
Really enjoyed that essay. Thank you!
My gut reaction to dealing with the rural districts is to reduce their paradoxically outsized impact on national elections for President and Congress. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a voice. They should, but their frankly backward, folksy, conservative values must not be allowed to stagnate the progress typically initiated in the urban areas. The outsized power of the underpopulated rural states (e.g. Wyoming, Montana) having the same number of senators as the more populous and more urban states (e.g. California, New York) is why Trump/MAGA have held us all in a choke-hold.
I and others seek a solution to this outmoded representation model, but the only actions to be taken near term are: 1) to change the Presidential election to a popular national vote total, doing away with the electoral college, and 2) granting statehood to Washington DC and ideally Puerto Rico. Those changes would go a long way.
However, all that said, there must be federal legislation to drive greater education to and inclusion of rural concerns.
A girl can dream.
Thank you again for your essay. It also got me rethinking the lessons of Gilgamesh, which is now want to re-read, as it has been a couple years.☺️