Is a democracy legitimate if votes don't weigh the same?

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49. ---unreasonable---

Do you mean that as a sarcastic description or as what you suspect the GP's attitude is leaning toward or that you find it acceptable and agree with it as well?

Curious.

So I agree with your stats and have made academic observations of the same... not to mention I grew up and received my primary education in New England which is drenched in academia... and I am a political scientist on top of all that. Yes, the Europeans and others are doing a better job of governing in some fashion but they are having some major problems too. Here, lookit...

http://www.france24.com/en/

There are flaws in every thing in our existence, and so it is with our Constitution and other legislation. This penchant for the perfection of anything is something that defies logic for me but it seems to be a component of the ugly tone running rampant of late. The framers, from reading what they had to say way back when they set up the system, knew that evolution was inevitable thus they provided instruction for those transitions, it's up to present day citizens to figure out how to apply the tenets of the system to resolve problems (with technology and societal change for example).

Our system will never be perfect but it can be more representative of the citizen population and actually address their concerns and act on them in specific and general terms. That's what it's all about but that point is lost on those who only have a thirst for controlling everyone else. I don't know where that comes from but it has been an element of humankind since conception. Those are the humans we need to remove from power, that should be the point. I am concerned that I see too much infighting and viscous attack within our party and I think that part of it is incited by trolls.

Keep studying the Constitution, no one person can "get" all of it because it is more like a tree which has a cyclical life... as do all living things on this planet.