Biden won less than 500 counties, but they account for 70% OF US GDP. Trump won 2400 counties, accou

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Billy Ray
@BillyRay5229
Biden won less than 500 counties, but they account for 70% OF US GDP.
Trump won 2400 counties, accounting for 29% of US GDP.
Dem voters are the economic engine of the country.
Deal with it.

Ben Winegard 🌲🌲
@BenWinegard
The Democratic Party is rapidly becoming the Party of the professional-managerial class.

[kimbutgar]

1. Wow that is some chart!

[roamer65]

2. Rural areas are depopulating, the urban area are growing.

[dem4decades]

3. Sadly 2 Senators will represent the last 10 people in each state. We're fucked.

[roamer65]

6. Unless there are major changes to the Constitution, I don't see the republic enduring.

The gross imbalance in representation will kill it.

[zipplewrath]

7. It's the fatal flaw

By 2040 it is estimated that 70% of the population will live in just 15 states. 30% of the population will control 70% of the senate.

[roamer65]

8. That's why I think Michigan would be better off under confederation with Canada.

The Canadian Senate does not have the overreaching powers that are afforded to our Senate.

We don’t dare open a constitutional convention in the US with states like AL, MS, KY and TN in it. It would just get worse.

I think we are starting to see the superiority of the parliamentary system.

[zipplewrath]

11. Yup

You'll notice that of all the democracies that have formed since 1781, none have chosen to replicate our system.

[roamer65]

12. Very true.

[former9thward]

13. And who are these "democracies"?

How stable have they been? What are their standard of living of their people?

[zipplewrath]

15. Varies widely

From most of western and now eastern europe, to India, Japan, and much of the pacific coast of Asia.

[Tom Rivers]

14. This is depressing

The states with no people in them are going to drag us back to the stone age. I really don't see our democracy in its current form lasting, maybe even ending in my lifetime (I'm 33). Trump was a trial run for fascism. It's all going to come to a head in these next few decades. We just live in such vastly different realities and have vastly different meanings of what freedom is to remain a united country for too much longer. I'm not sure it would be a war per se since this isn't so much a region vs. region conflict right now but more a (conservative) rural vs. (liberal) big city conflict. I definitely see a separation of some sort. Big cities/their suburbs and rural areas each have their own separate form of government (their own Senate/House, their own President, their own Supreme Court)? IDK but I just don't see how the current format can be sustained.

[zipplewrath]

16. Something to consider

You are correct that it may be in your lifetime, and it may be your generation that has to figure it out. No time like the present to envision how it can be accomplished without massive bloodshed.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. tRump might have won if antelope and bison could vote.

Hush my mouth. Don't want to give the Rethugs any new ideas.......


....Thanks for posting those graphs, Soothsayer. Very informative!

[marmar]

17. The antelope and bison would be voting against their own interests....

.... as Trump sells off the national parks to oil companies.

[Cha]

5. Rt.. Good news!

[Talitha]

9. Land doesn't vote - - People do.

[Mordred]

10. Arbitrary

and meaningless. There are no standards for dividing a state into counties.

California is the most populous state, 3rd largest by area and is divided into 58 counties.
There are 26 states that have more counties than the Golden State.