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« on: December 05, 2014, 02:41:24 AM » |
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« edited: December 05, 2014, 02:48:38 AM by New Canadaland »
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Most methods to prevent "tyranny of the majority" through disproportionate representation like unequal pop. districts and the electoral college never protect the most politically vulnerable, only select political minorities which happen to be primarily white and rural. Many of the groups who have the least representation in politics are made even weaker under these systems.
All the checks of the American political system has not protected the rights racial minorities for most of its history. That injustice is much more lasting and severe than whatever grievances a rural downstate IL county has. If the state government is not implementing what they wish, that's expected when their party is normally in the minority. At least the representation they get is proportional to their population, which couldn't be said of African Americans.
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