Posted on 12/04/2016 8:39:12 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
When the modern Tea Party movement coalesced in the early days of the Obama presidency, its allusion to the political grievances of the protesters in Boston Harbor a couple of hundred years earlier seemed plausible enough: Its members felt that their taxes were too high and their interests not adequately represented by the remote authorities in Washington.
But the election of 2016 presents a challenge to that historical lineage. The home states to the Tea Party are actually doing great on the taxation and representation front. Its the progressive blue states that should be protesting.
Start with the Electoral College. It has always deviated from the one-person-one-vote system that most Americans imagine they live in, but demographic shifts in recent years have made its prejudices more conspicuous, culminating in the striking gap between Hillary Clintons decisive popular vote victory and her Electoral College loss. Thanks to the two extra votes delivered to each state for its two senators, the Electoral College gives less populated states a higher weight, per capita, than it gives more populated states in the decision of who should be the next president.
This was always a betrayal of one-person-one-vote equality, in that a voter in rural Wyoming has more than three times the power of a voter in New Jersey, the countrys most densely populated state. .......
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The only thing that this election proved if Hillary got the larger percentage of popular votes.... is how stupid those voters really are. And that’s worrisome.
I am a Conservative Republican and Evangelical living in California. How much representation do I get in the Electoral College? Thank God that folks in Pa, Wisconsin, and Michigan have my back. God Bless.
But it's never Wyoming or Delaware or Vermont or North Dakota that decides presidential elections.
It's always a larger state like Florida or Ohio or Michigan or Pennsylvania.
Also, articles like this tend to turn states into stereotypes.
Not everybody in the blue states wants open borders or an end to the coal industry, and not everybody in the red states wants to overturn marijuana legalization or gay marriage.
You have to get beyond the selected comments that they give you at first and get at the complete list of comments.
One commenter noted that, once you leave out the very rich, per capita taxes paid don't vary as much between the states as the article says. It's the few very rich people in large cities and suburbs that make the largest contributions, not necessarily the average blue stater.
“It’s the few very rich people in large cities and suburbs that make the largest contributions, not necessarily the average blue stater.”
And the leftists love to soak their rich.
I want to know who first pushed the idea the the United States is a democracy, last time I checked we were a Representative Republic.
I do not like mob rule, “unless I am the boss of the biggest mob”.
NYT is totally discredited.
Such a well thought out and accurate depiction of the forces we must fight against on a daily basis. As you have pointed out in great detail this is a battle that has been raging for ages. And it will continue long after we are gone.
9 out of 10 birds now refuse to even take a crap on the New York Slimes, too undignified.
You’ve got my sympathies. I have conservative relatives in California who feel the same frustration.
You can take some comfort in the fact that the flood of people from L.A. who’ve now set up their residences in Austin, Texas are getting a taste of what you’ve been feeling. I said the other day that they now, finally, understand what it feels like for their vote to not count against the rest of the state and it couldn’t make me more happy.
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