[ExI] My prediction

[John Clark]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 3:35 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *>>…If they're unhappy in such a sparsely populated state all they need to
>> do is MOVE to another state, one that has a larger population. That's odd,
>> I suddenly got a feeling of déjà vu, I really feel like I've heard that
>> argument before but I just can't quite remember where.  *
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> *>The interior states are not unhappy in sparsely populated states.*
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*That's true, thanks to the Electoral College the sparsely populated states
ARE NOT unhappy, but also because of the Electoral College the densely
populated states ARE unhappy; so it creates more unhappiness than
happiness. And there is a word that describes that sort of thing, "bad".
And that's why I think your retort to my criticisms of the Electoral
College "people could just move to another state" is, to be polite,
unsatisfactory.    *


> *> John I get a vague feeling you are not entirely satisfied with the
> current state however. *
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*And I thought I was hiding it so well!  I don't know how you figured that
out, but however you managed it I guess I have to plead guilty to the
charge. Conservatives are entirely satisfied with the current state of
things, but being unsatisfied is the reason the human race has made
progress over the centuries. And that's why I can't call myself a
conservative, they want to just keep on doing things the way they've always
been doing them and not change anything. I think we can do better, other
countries have. *

 *I recently saw a political cartoon in which a man asks his wife "Can you
name one thing Greenland has that we really need?" and she responds with
"Universal Free Healthcare".*


*John K Clark*
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