America will never solve its gun problem until it gets over its fetish for the Founding Fathers.

[DanTex]

223. The political divisions are arbitrary. What matters is equal representation for citizens.

Surely you're not suggesting that the fact that Fresno is a city and not a state means that the people who live there don't deserve as much of a voice as those who live in Wyoming? Or maybe that's exactly what you are saying!

The whole argument based on "equally situated political entities" is preposterous. Once again, yes, I understand that in the status quo the people of Fresno are not "equally situated" with the people of Wyoming. That's my whole point! The current system is horribly undemocratic and unequal, and that's wrong. All citizens should have an equal voice, regardless of how "politically situated" they are.

Your extreme deference for the current allocation of power is troubling, and reminds me more than anything of people who were born with priviledge and come to feel entitled to more than others. Though I haven't heard any 1%-ers come up with a justification for inequality quite as Orwellian as your "equally situated" thing, so you get points for creativity. As in, yeah, "some people make billions while others starve to death, but they aren't "equally situated economically", so you can't really compare them..."

As far as accusing me of neo-colonialism, the only response here is WTF? You are the one that believes that some citizens should have far more power than others simply because of some arbitrary political constructs that were agreed upon centuries ago. I, on the other hand, think that the traditional power structure that allows some people to have more influence than others is not nearly as important as the one-person, one-vote principle. And, despite cheering on this grossly unequal system, you are accusing me of neo-colinialism? Whaaaaaa?

You don't actually care about "minority rights", which is why you can hardly bring you to acknowledge the existence of people who live in Fresno or Staten Island. You only care about the rights of people like you.