• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I just wish conservatives on big plots of empty land had less of a grip on this country…if only we could merge Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the Dakotas while we give DC and Puerto Rico statehood.

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      Thank the disproportionate system of senate representation allowing a minority of dickheads to maintain power of the majority. By design, so the plutocrats can manipulate the naive into doing their bidding.

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        They have perfected a system of having the rubes in flyover country vote for exactly what the elites would want. And in that process, they have convinced the rubes that they are some kind of vanguard voting against the elite.

        Naturally, they have reprogrammed these people to believe that the term “elite” has nothing to do with obscene amounts of wealth, no, no, no. Being elite means: being intelligent, knowing things, having expertise, an education, having traveled to a big city, knowing another language, having a passport they have used, etc…