The thing lost over the last two and a half centuries is that we are not a simple single nation. We are a union of 50 states. Each state is equal within the Union. Hence, two Senators per state, and Electoral College to chose the president. Sadly many, both privately but also in public office, are trying to derail that system ... dismantle and eliminate that protection. To make it worse, individual states are working to turn their electoral delegates into a mirror of the national vote. Rather than represent their state with a winner and loser, they are splitting their votes to give to both, and some want to send their delegates to cast votes, either split or unanimous, for the majority of the full national count.
It is people living in downtown Billings, MT, suburban Minneapolis, MN, Denver, CO, and lakeside Duluth, MN, who think that they are the same as a person living in New York City, Los Angeles or Seattle demanding and doing this to us.
Forget the cartoons of Pres. DJT with a rack cleaning up the forest. That is what you get when people make rules and laws about ecosystems that don't understand the benefits of natural fire. We suppress fire, we refuse to do controlled burns, we don't use managed logging where natural fires aren't allowed. Why, because someone living on the 105th floor of a skyscraper and has never spent more than 12 hours in a forest is afraid the ash will pollute, or a bird might die, or we will never see that tract of land the same in our lifetime. People with history in these areas realize that change is good, and change is necessary for health. We must destroy to renew. The reverse would be true if Montana tried to rule the Los Angeles Basin with their lifestyle and knowledge.
Rant suspended for now, but look out, it is coming again.