@inthehands
A *confederation* ahhh ha ha! Very good. 😊
Have also heard people say that when you see all the red on the big map of the USA… hardly anyone lives in the red bits. Most of the population is in the blue bits. 🤔
@Su_G @inthehands @julieofthespirits
And the red bits get extra representation due to the electoral college.
@violetmadder @Su_G @inthehands @julieofthespirits I've heard that's a deliberate choice. Sort of an offer the union made to the confederates after the war in order to pacify them. It was meant to secure the power and influence as they were mostly a gang of big landowners. It was meant to give them influence disproportionate to their numbers. I've read an estimate of 5% of the vote that you'd have to subtract from conservative numbers if you'd switch to direct voting.
@Tamtam @violetmadder @Su_G @inthehands @julieofthespirits ... three-fifths of all other persons ...
@Tamtam @Su_G @inthehands @julieofthespirits
Definitely a deliberate choice.
There are a lot of antidemocratic mechanisms in this supposed democracy.