Claim to be a democracy

1. "Food production" isn't all that concerns the farmer, the doctor, the retailer, the IT technician, etc. - Precisely because everyone consumes lots of different things and specializes in different fields urban centers are so big. To ignore or downplay the contribution of people in urban and suburban areas is nonsense considering it's where most total production occurs.
2. "It's bigger on the map!!!" is not an argument, the unit of choice-makers is people not states. I don't vote because I want my state to choose the president, I vote because I want to choose the president (along with everyone else voting). The amount of space the living and working expanses of the midwest have shouldn't make their votes more valuable than ours.

it is tho

Only formally

a fereral republic may or may not be a democracy
educate yourself

>not understanding the basic tenants of federalism

The people are represented by the states
The states are represented by the federal government

The states are supposed to be the accurate representation of the collective will of the people living in the state. The federal government is supposed to be the entity that balances, mediates, and executes, the conflicting wills of each state.

America is not actually a "democracy", that's just the propaganda we use to justify killing brown people for their resources.

when I last checked the majority of americans support killing brown people
inconvenient truth for liberals

The current president-elect campaigned on his opposition to the war in Iraq.

Industry does not equal representation. People do. You have three options: start shitting out more kids that you keep there, move to the cities to impart a larger voice, or convince people in the cities that you're right.

Ruralite independence is a myth, by the way. Rural America dies when not connected to an interstate.

lots of americans are sick of the war because it yields nothing and costs billions