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Originally Posted by LadyShea
Yes, I guess I just don't see how the "city folk" could even understand the issues facing, I dunno, farmers or factory workers or some shit. This whole thing makes my head hurt.
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I don't think it's really that bad anymore. We're nomadic enough as a society for this to be less of an issue than it probably was at the time the EC was decided on.
And besides, fuck farmers.
Seriously. Kind of. They already have undue representation in congress. Shit like the estate tax and corn subsidies. (CORN? CORN?!?! Seriously! WTF? Why are so many of our tax dollars going to fund the "move along, nothing to digest here" vegetable?)
How is it that "America's family farmers" became the touchstone it did? Why should those who are born into one specific family business be endowed with such disproportionate importance on the political landscape?
I'm not saying they deserve NO representation, but I don't understand why those of us born to white-collar parents, single urban mothers, or garbage men deserve less than do those who were born to into family farming.
And again, dismantling the EC doesn't necessarily imply dismantling the representation system in congress as well. I won't lie. I would be for eliminating some of the skew in congress as well, but that doesn't have to follow.