Thursday, August 01, 2024

It's that time again...

As a presidential election looms, everybody's talking about the electoral college again. "Oh, each voter in Wyoming has three times as much weight in the EC than each voter in California!" 


You hear this a lot about the Senate, too, since Wyoming gets one senator per every 288,000 people while nearly 20 million Californians have to share one senator among them.

Complaining about this is like complaining about the rules of Monopoly in the middle of the game, or being mad that chess pieces only move certain ways. This is a federation of sovereign states. Does China get more ambassadors at the UN than Luxembourg? No it does not. (Although the USSR tried to play that game during the Cold War. "Oh, Ukrainian SSR is own nation and deserves ambassador!" Funny how now Ukraine is traditional part of Russia, according to Vlad, since when he was in the KGB they had their own seat at the United Nations.)

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