Again, you could say the same thing of women before 1919. Or slaves before 1870. Just pointing at tens of millions of people and saying “You don’t count because we said so”.
There’s a reason I choose to compare with voting eligible population
Because you’re trapped in the same backwards headspace as Stephen Douglas circa 1858. Or John fucking Adams, trying to explain to his wife Abigail why nobody at the Constitutional Convention wanted their wives to participate.
A huge chunk of the US population is either:
There’s a reason I choose to compare with voting eligible population
An arbitrary designation set by statute
An arbitrary designation set by statute
Again, you could say the same thing of women before 1919. Or slaves before 1870. Just pointing at tens of millions of people and saying “You don’t count because we said so”.
Because you’re trapped in the same backwards headspace as Stephen Douglas circa 1858. Or John fucking Adams, trying to explain to his wife Abigail why nobody at the Constitutional Convention wanted their wives to participate.