Originally posted by: ebaycj
Originally posted by: piasabird
(1.) So the rest of the state is in slavery to a few counties around chicago whether we want to be or not.
(2.) It is like everyone's vote in southern Illinois is worthless and irrelevent.
1. If you don't want to be in "slavery" any more how about you and all the people in your county get off your collective asses and generate some f$cking wealth (and therefore tax revenue / power / influence / etc....). You act like you're helpless to do anything and the people in "a few counties in/around chicago" just got lucky to be where they are at and have the influence that they do. WRONG. The reason people in those counties have more influence is because they work their asses off for it. You don't like being a slave? Guess what, I don't like subsidizing you. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
2. Southern IL votes are neither worthless nor irrelevant. They are just completely overshadowed by a huge majority, something that will likely never change. Such things happen in Democracy. Think about being a die-hard Democrat in the traditionally very Red state of Utah (or Texas, or any other very Red state). That's basically what you are, except you are a die hard conservative in a very Blue state. If you don't like it, move to Indiana, which has been known to go either way. Maybe your vote will feel more important.