>>You're missing the main point. Over 80% of Americans live in and around cities, so those folks should count for 80% when voting.
Fair enough, but having waited until now to call for electoral change, protestors must accept that electoral change takes years to effect and in the meantime, the scoreboard is the scoreboard.
>>You don't think Trump saying he wants to "open up the libel laws" is a threat to freedom of the press?
No more so than the existence of prisons is a threat to your freedom. A responsible news media has nothing to fear from libel laws, just as you need not fear imprisonment unless you abuse the privileges of freedom. A partisan media that scoffs at and taunts the president-elect to do anything about unbalanced reporting, is abusing its privileges. I fully "get" what Scalia and Trump are talking about: it's neither democratic nor fair that the NYT could publish highly inflammatory accusations during the election campaign and then publish their taunting sneering reply to Trump that there's nothing he can do about it. Why not?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
