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by airstrike 47 days ago
It literally does? Things that people care strongly about get prioritized. I said others don't feel like the OP. Maybe they agree with the point if presented with the choice, but again, they don't feel the same way, so they don't think, protest, comment, demand it in the way the OP does.
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thinkingtoilet 47 days ago
Not at all. I can feel very strongly about that, but if I feel more strongly about health care so tens of thousands of people don't die needlessly and countless millions more don't go bankrupt or get maimed from lack treatment, one is going to win over the other. That doesn't mean I don't feel strongly about it. Also, the 600,000 in Wyoming get the same two senators as the 40,000,000 people in California so it's not like there is equal representation by any means.
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airstrike 47 days ago
Like I said, not enough people care about it enough to push for legislation.

And proportional representation is found in the House of Representatives. We have a bicameral legislature.

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kennywinker 46 days ago
> not enough people care about it enough to push for legislation.

This is a just-so-story. No matter how much people care you can always say they don’t care enough when the law doesn’t match what people want - and when the law does match it’s because they cared enough, no matter how much they actually cared.

In practice, the laws don’t match what people want.

But all that aside - the laws already exist to block this acquisition, the only thing that’s missing is enforcement.

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anjel 45 days ago
The Constitution simply states that representation shall be based on population but doesn't specify a fixed cap. The number of Reps in the House was frozen by the Congressional apportionment Act of 1929.

How is that proportional, a century of pop growth later?

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toss1 47 days ago
More accurately, they adwquately don't give politicians the money and exercise the power of wealth.

An extensive study [0], showed "Basically, average citizens only get what they want if economic elites or interest groups also want it"

They studied actual attitudes about issues, moneyed attitudes, and tracked what got implemented as laws. NONE of the 'thinking, protesting, commenting, of demanding' was effective. MONEY was.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...

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