Timothy Birdnow

So, how did America get into the pickle it currently enjoys?

Jeff Howe sent this article which explains in part.

The 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act capped the number of U.S. Representatives at the level established by the 1910 census at 435. As a result the cities - where the population is most dense - became the real power brokers and the more conservative countryside lost influence as more Congressional seats were given to metropolitan areas at the expense of the rural areas. The result was Democratic political machines wielded undo influence.

Couple this with other reforms of the Progressive era, such as the Federal Reserve, the Income Tax, anti-trust laws, Prohibition, the direct election of Senators, etc. and you had a recipe for expanding Federal power and the growth of the Democratic Party.

We are now ruled by the very left wing cities. The country folks have little say in how America is governed.

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