Crowfiend
I had a coworker before that was a flat-earther (lizardmen believer and all that shit), and one day he came into work saying “y’all ever wonder if the moon makes its own light??” during a dinner rush and the only thing that kept me from punching his lights out was the fact that it was dinner rush, or I would have pulled him by the collar of his shirt and beat him to near death.
I didn’t think people like that really existed until him, and even then I didn’t want to accept it.
I’m ancient times, people outside city walls weren’t even allowed to vote. Add in the fact that humanity is tribal in nature, and your statement holds even less true.
You think the peasants outside city walls were even allowed to vote on anything? They were literally outsiders that knew little to nothing about the inner (more populated) parts of cities.
A city’s overall opinion is literally more important than rural mud slinging opinion, if for no other reason than because more people live there, and are affected by policy.
Edit: sorry for being mean
Because of the way the US handles elections.
Here’s a link to my other comment that explains it as I (a laymen) understand it as I was taught in school.
As others have said, yes it is. Unfortunately it’s also a strong representation of how the voting process operates in the US. At the local level (towns and cities), individual votes matter. However, for something like the presidential election (for example), then the votes are averaged by county and state.
So what happens is everyone from a county votes, and if that county is more of one side than the other, that entire county is “voting x/y”. Then the counties across the state are compared, and that state is declared as “voting” for either side. Then nationally, each state is counted as either/or, so even if the more populated cities vote one way, if enough of the rural population votes the other way, the rural side wins, and the urban side loses.
It’s almost as if the system urgently needs reform. Too bad the powers in charge of that were elected specifically because of it.
Imagine being a politician and thinking this doesn’t apply to you personally
that presumes Trump isn’t a draft-dodging bastard of a person. If he had been a conscientious-objector of the Vietnam “war,” he would maybe have some genuine merit to his words.
Instead he’s a (publicly known) selfish draft-dodger who only did it so he wouldn’t get shot like the crybaby that got his ear pierced a couple weeks ago.
If you show me a Vietnam veteran that votes for Trump, I’ll show you a brainwashed power tool.
SLAMS!