This nation was founded as a Constitutional republic with democratic elections. It is not a pure democracy because pure democracy is tribalistic. The American Constitution was designed to produce a country that is not tribalistic. The founders set out to create a legal system whereby all citizens have equal representation under the law. No other government had established such a system, making America the “exception to the rule,” hence the term “American Exceptionalism.”
In a pure democracy, the population centers will dominate the vote and create policies that benefit the residents of large cities at a cost to those living in rural areas. In time, the rural residents will lose all representation, eventually destroying the union.
As a nation’s population increases, the cities become more populated since rural land is needed for the resources located on that land. The land doesn’t grow, and land is a limited resource. There is always a limited amount of fertile soil, woodlands, coal, and oil deposits. The rural residents live in rural areas because the primary economies in those areas revolve around the essential natural resources we need to survive. When the population centers increase to where the residents outvote the rural residents, they create policies that benefit them but are eventually crippling to the rural residents. We then have an energy and food production crisis, among other limited resources. This is the current state of America.
Through regulation, our nation has bifurcated into the large business (population center) economy and the small business (rural) economy.
On a national level, the Senate now has most representatives put in place by population centers.
The solution to this problem would be an amendment stating that in each state, the counties will be listed in order from most populated to least populated. The counties shall be divided into two groups of equal (or as close as possible) populations. One group will comprise high-population counties and the other low-population counties. Both groups will have a nearly identical number of residents voting. Each group will nominate one senator. With this system, there will always be representation on a national level for both rural and urban Americans. By implementing this system, we won’t vote to destroy our means of production to benefit the end recipients of the production and won’t face the fate of other nations.