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5. Is it possible that this is part of their strategy?
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 04:04 PM
Jul 2021

For instance, you have a skewed electoral college system that gives a lot of power to undersized states. We know that voters in the small states have outsized power relative to large states (e.g., ID/WY/ND/SD vs CA).

We also know that each state gets 2 Senators - regardless of size.

If you gerrymander the state, have it run by republicans, and implement shitty policies that drive out intelligent people, you end up with those who are economically immobile (either they are old, uneducated, or otherwise can't/won't leave the state).

On top of being uneducated, you are also prone to listen to a variety of librul-hatin' media outlets who focus your anger on anything but the fact republicans don't want a Democratic system.

The list of states that I would potentially visit continues to be shortened and most of those continue to get redder and redder.

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