The feel when I forgot serious tag <| sep |> I ' m offering a counterexample . You seem to think that minority group of people deserve to have their votes counted more than majority group of people , because otherwise majority group of people will overpower the minority group of people every time . In your example , minority group of people rural Americans . majority group of people urban Americans . But if your supposition is at all correct , then you must also acknowledge that other minority groups of people need to have their votes counted more as well for after all , won ' t they also be overpowered by the majority ? This is where your argument breaks down . You ' ve chosen to favor one minority over all others . When replacing your favored minority with another minority whom disagrees with you , suddenly you complain that it ' s irrelevant . It ' s most certainly not . You need to sit back and realise that the only reason you ' re insisting that your vote counts more than mine is because you don ' t think my vote should be equal to yours because I disagree with you . Pretending that this is at all about equality when arguing for inequality is disingenuous as all hell . My vote should count as much as yours if you value democratic equality . Period . If you disagree , you ' re wrong . I will not discuss this any further . Your arguments are illogical and fallacious .