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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:19:51 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:13:16 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>
>> You can't reason with progressives.
>
> Still waiting for an answer to my question about why, if you believe all 
> your citizens are “created equal”, you don’t want their votes to count 
> equally?

Because the U.S. is a collection of sovereign states, not a single entity. 
When the states entered the Union they did so with certain checks and 
balances. Power in the United States is supposed to be bottom up. Local 
government is supposed to have the most influence on its citizens, then 
county, then the state, then the Federal government. The Federal government 
has used extortion and tax money (they shouldn't have gotten) to attain 
power that was never granted to them in the Constitution.

So the answer is, each state is its own sovereign entity and the checks and 
balances in our country where designed so that no big state could run 
roughshod over the smaller states.

Got it now?

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien