Our collective Democratic goose is cooked
as long as the demographics of this country work against us. Al Gore may have lost because of fewer electoral votes regardless even if the United States Supreme Court had not inappropriately interfered. We lost this election, not because there are fewer of us, but because there are fewer of us in most of rural America.
Our forefathers set up our electoral system and Congress with the idea that everyone would have a voice in government no matter how small a group one belonged to. It was set up to insure that a majority couldn’t lord it over a minority. I mean you can appreciate this if you are amongst a small group of ranchers who are up against a nearby city that is trying to take all the available water. In this way your interests are protected.

Well, who would have figured that this protection could have had this unintentional result? Who would have figured that the votes of the majority of educated progressive Americans would become overruled by the votes of a minority of marginally educated rural folks? I’m afraid we underestimated the power that these simpler people had. We dismissed the fact that these people, who believe everything their leaders and preachers tell them no matter how irrational it is, could have any effect on our lives.

Unfortunately the leaders that these people follow are for the most part a bunch of charlatans and demagogues of the robber baron model. I mean they are really in it for themselves and their like minded cronies. Like their ilk has always done, they find a window of opportunity, a crack in the door and take advantage of it long before anyone else has noticed that they are occupying the place that once belonged to the people.

This came about because most of the Republican voting states have populations that are a fraction of most of the Democratic voting states. I mean sparsely populated Wyoming has two senators just like densely populated California. Electoral votes cannot be divided by parties but traditionally must all go to one party in each state no matter how evenly divided the election is.

Our House of Representatives, which could have been the only true measure of how the populations voted, have been gerrymandered into districts to insure that votes go to a certain pre-ordained candidates. In some cases the candidates ran without opposition. So unless we all start moving to red states to tip the demographics, I don’t know how we are going to get our voice heard in the near future.

They will not last forever, because blatant self-interest and constant lying eventually becomes transparent even to the densest mind. In the meantime, I hope we are ready to fight a defensive grass roots battle to keep these rogues from taking everything from us and turning our country into a third rate world power.

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Correct statement, wrong party. This guy is an idiot. Most of the rural farmers vote democrat at the congressional level. They may elect more conservatives (sometimes) to their own state legislature but, when it comes to the national level, they vote for the subsidies. That was true in TX and it's true up here in ND.

However, I wouldn't call them particularly uneducated and I wouldn't call them stupid. Some of the most ignorant morons I've ever met, are "highly educated" people. They fill their brains with so much idealistic garbage that common sense and REAL intelligence gets pushed out their ass.

They will not last forever, because blatant self-interest and constant lying eventually becomes transparent even to the densest mind.