Definition time. Representative Government is a form of democracy in which people elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.
Recently, someone from Ohio stated, “I don’t want only people in bigger cities deciding on an issue. My town is small, and we all deserve a say if an issue should be on a ballot.”
Some people think that city dwellers in a state are all the same, but that’s not true. They have different values and opinions, just like people in rural areas have different values and opinions.
Cities contain lots of people. The idea that their desires are lesser results from decades of propaganda. Propaganda that has painted cities as these kinds of cesspools of immoral beliefs and behaviors.
If you don’t like progressive policies and don’t want to see them enacted, then you do what everyone in a polity must do. You make your case. You show why your values and your preferred policies are better. If the majority agrees with you, then those should be the ones that are enacted. If the majority disagrees with you, you must work harder to win voters for your issues. That’s just how a democratic society works.
If you don’t like what most voters in your state want and try to stop them from getting what they want, then you’re not interested in representative government. You’re just interested in power and control. And that’s not good.
Ohio’s Issue One
Ohio’s Issue One is all about Republican politicians trying to take away the majority’s ability, the ability of regular Ohioans, whether you live in a city or a small town, to see your policy preferences enacted.
Ohioans should be concerned about their state representatives and state senators. They’re the ones who have genuine power and genuine lack of accountability thanks to gerrymandering, how they’ve structured it, and how they’ve stacked the Supreme Court in Ohio so that they can ignore the desires of their citizens.
They have way more power and way more tyranny than someone who happens to live in a city.