Annual Idaho Potato Drop to impact traffic, road closures!

This is shocking. Idaho has traffic?

OK, that headline seems dramatic until you see the details:

The annual Idaho Potato Drop that will be at midnight on January 1st and is expected to draw more than 5,000 people to downtown Boise.

This shows you how deserted America is from the Dakotas to Idaho, where 5000 people is a crazy large crowd that impacts everyone’s lives. I live in a small town you never heard of (Grand Chute, Wisconsin), and we have more people than that at in our mall at busy times, maybe every day! Our general area, a bunch of towns and small cities from Oshkosh to Green Bay, has as many people as the entire state of Wyoming. We think we live in Podunk, USA, but we’re big city folk compared to the residents of Wyoming! Not that I really care, except for the fact that Wyoming has two senators.

4 thoughts on “Annual Idaho Potato Drop to impact traffic, road closures!

  1. Why should it matter if Wyoming has 2 senators. They are one of 50 states of the United States and every state has 2 senators. Should they not have representation in the US Senate just because they don’t have 30 million citizens? The only way their vote counts is to have 2 senators. The idea ( by your comment) that their population is not adequate for them to have 2 senators is why the Electoral College exists. Without the Electoral College the East coast and West coast would always elect the President. They almost never support a Republican or Independant candidate. No flyover states should bother polling their citizens. You contend that you live in a flyover state (Wisconsin) and your vote would be meaningless because you don’t live in a large population center. I live in Illinois and without Cook County, Illinois would go Republican instead of Democrat in every national election. Why do you think that the largest population centers should determine who is the president of the country? All citizens should have the right to vote and it should not be determined by population density.

    1. The answer is this. The 575,000 people in Wyoming have two senators. The 575,000 in my metro area (such as it is) have no senators. (I guess you could argue that I have approximately 1/10 of a senator.) Why are their interests more important than mine?

      You are right in that is a justfication for the Electoral College, but of course the flaw in your logic is the fact that it DOES exist doesn’t mean that it SHOULD! The 2-senator apportionment served a purpose when the slave-holding states wanted to keep the other states from abolishing slavery by the overwhelming power of their much larger population, but it would be difficult to argue in retrospect that that was a worthwhile purpose. We just keep it around because that’s the way it always was.

      No, large population centers should not determine the President or the Senate. The PEOPLE should determine it, with everyone’s vote counting the same, not some yokel in Wyoming getting 20 times as much voting power as me!

      Of course it’s unlikely that the reality is going to change. If I had my druthers, I would abolish the senate altogether and change the house of reps into staggered six year terms like today’s senate, but that ain’t gonna happen.

    2. My counter to this guy’s argument that states should have the same amount of representation no matter how big the population is, is the hypocrisy of so many Republicans having a hard on for stopping Medicaid or welfare from ‘freeloaders.’

      You want ‘freeloaders’? How about the fact that California ALONE has the 5th largest economy in the world! Bigger than the UK by itself. So all the Republicans worried about ‘freeloaders’ get their federal taxes from one of those ‘liberal’ states.

      Not to mention practically every population center in the US is liberal, because people actually have to live with each other and treat people with respect. And where does most of those state tax dollars go? To the rural areas in the same state for public services to those people. I mean, you want freeloaders, go out to Trump country and see where their public services are paid for. If they want to look down on some minority or immigrant for being on welfare, they can live on their own county’s tax dollars for services and not take it from liberal population centers.

      It’s funny how quick people are to ignore their own benefits from others, and look down on someone else at the same time.

    3. It is estimated that, by the year 2050, 70% of Americans will live in 15 states. That means that only 30% of the population would have representation by 70% of the U.S. Senate. This is a tyranny of the minority. The founding fathers had no way of knowing that the population would eventually be dispersed the way that it is, but representation should not be this lopsided.

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