The constitution provides hard limits to what anyone can do without overwhelming support and substantial due process. You cannot implement a communist dictatorship within the scope of the current US constitution. The supreme court provides another check as the composition changes slowly.
Your charge could be leveled in reverse and better wielded.
>People in rural areas tend to think similarly due to a similar environment. What a rural area desires in the nation's leader does not necessarily align with city voters. You must see the danger in a few, smallgroups having the majority of the power.
>Say 10 states comprising less than 3% of the population decide that a communist leader would be best for the country. How the hell do residents outside the cities stand up against that in any way but force.
Note the 10 lowest population states really do comprise less than 3% of the US population.
Your charge could be leveled in reverse and better wielded.
>People in rural areas tend to think similarly due to a similar environment. What a rural area desires in the nation's leader does not necessarily align with city voters. You must see the danger in a few, smallgroups having the majority of the power.
>Say 10 states comprising less than 3% of the population decide that a communist leader would be best for the country. How the hell do residents outside the cities stand up against that in any way but force.
Note the 10 lowest population states really do comprise less than 3% of the US population.