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As a midwesterner though, I feel like this kind of also ignores how we get abused BECAUSE of those seats?

Sorry this is so long, feel free to ignore it.

Essentially we always talk about how there is a migration liberal and/or queer folks to urban centers, but we don’t talk about how the opposite is true. NeoLiberals who wanna LARP as cowboys move out to the midwest, and go on to buy massive tracks of land for agribusiness and ranching. Often this means pushing out local businesses or leaving towns to economically stagnate (my Dad’s hometown for instance is collapsing because of aging population, inability to compete with agribusiness, and lost the corporate Sporting Good Store HQ during a Toys R Us esque take over). South Dakota in specific is especially vulnerable because it has no corporate income tax, nor personal income tax, nor any personal property tax. This is meant to incentivice businesses to come to South Dakota, but in reality means the business owners acrew capital to such a degree that they have an outsized influence on the shape of the state and it’s priorities.

SD has shitty infrastructure, no job oppurtunites outside low pay retail in improvished towns, whose wage theft essentially doom spirals the entire region, forcing people to move, perish, or (what I hope we realize) organize outside of the main stream economy to self sustain our struggling communities rather than buying necessities from the very NeoLiberal shitheels who hot us into this mess.

So what worries me is that as businesses consolidate more power and push the poor out, agribusiness will lean on Undocumented Immigrants, essentially creating a population that cannot legally express their wishes. Also as the state’s mental health collapses and addiction rises, many people will become apathetic and nihilistic to change (most folks I find don’t have a true political framing and trust the voice who can afford to influence them a la Sinclair or cable or Youtube Algorithims of Doom. Even what books are available in a Barnes and Noble are stocksd to reflect assumed political affiliation, reinforcing the local echo chamber)

So what worries me, is that “flyover” states could become sort of Hollow, where the vast majority are either disenstivised or unable to vote, but inflate the pop enough to back up a relative small number of votes made by the class who can afford to. They become justifcation to overvalue votes that, even if they reflect peoples’ political affiliation, do not reflect what people want (Generally not to be poor starved and hungry, something American politicians are great at snake oiling more power out of). As always, Dems could REALLY get a foot in if they were an actual political party and not a dissent heatsink.

I don’t think this is a conspiracy, I just think it’s how the system shakes out. And I’m not saying that flyover states may vote significantly different if all these things vanished over night. What I am saying is that it’s a mistake to believe that just because the vote is still present doesn’t mean it is actually a demcratic process.

I already abused my fucking soapbox, so I’ll end here. My personal conviction is that Flyover states would be better served politically with stronger local governments rather than be ruled by an over reaching fed and Reps who can afford to essentially be coastal elites with summer homes in The midwest.

Apologies for the rant, I just feel responsible as a midwesterner to insert my perspective so we have some sort of voice, rather than being the object of debate by out of staters :p

Feel free to suplex me for knowing jackshit or even not answering the question at all. I’m relatively knew to thinking about this stuff and, like most folks, can be overly fixated on national level politics

hi miss pratty prat why do you think democrat’s want the electoral college abolished?

It's a power grab, nothing less

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