California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

[u/sweatycat]

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414

[u/pomonamike]

It’s kinda crazy that we are a second-level political division when by ourselves we would be one of the economically biggest nations on the planet.

It really doesn’t make practical sense when we have to bend the knee to certain senators that were voted in by fewer people than live in say… Riverside.

[u/AndyVale → u/pomonamike]

I remember discussing this with an American acquaintance saying I didn't get the electoral college. For many millions of Californians their vote is worth less than someone in one of the smaller states.

He retorted "so the farmers in Wyoming shouldn't be listened to over the liberal techies in California?"

Because I had recently read some stuff on the topic, I pointed out that California actually has an enormous amount of agricultural workers. I couldn't remember the exact stats but it was a sizeable amount.

They immediately pivoted to that being why Californians' vote shouldn't count as much, because they didn't understand as much about other issues.

You can't win when somebody makes up the rules as they go along 🤷‍♂️

[u/9793287233 → u/AndyVale]

Also if the farmers in Wyoming are only about 12 people compared to thousands of "liberal techies in California" then YES we should prioritize the desires of the liberal techies

[u/JugdishSteinfeld → u/9793287233]

Apparently there are 33,000 farm workers in Wyoming. California has over 400,000.

[u/not-my-other-alt → u/JugdishSteinfeld]

Subway employs about 100,000 people.

If 'Wyoming farmers' are a constituency worth a Senate seat, then Subway sandwich makers should get three.

[u/Brawkoli → u/not-my-other-alt]

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

[u/bschott007 → u/not-my-other-alt]

The U.S. Constitution, specifically Article I, Section 3, mandates that the Senate be composed of two senators from each state. The Founding Fathers' intent behind this came from a compromise reached during the Constitutional Convention to address the concerns of both large and small states, ensuring that smaller states wouldn't be overshadowed by larger ones in the legislative process. Without a Senate, some of the states wouldn't have joined in the Revolution...and to be perfectly frank, just because we may live in a small state, doesn't mean we follow the same political views and we know without a doubt the large states would definately abuse the small states if they were allowed to. People in those large states would totally vote for only their own interests and never give a second thought to us living in the rural areas. Large states would dam up a river even if that would utterly destroy the farming of people living down stream in a smaller state and never give a second thought to it because "more people here, more power here. You should all pull yourselves up by the bootstraps and live in a city, not digging in the mud and playing with plants!"

Sure, we all should have equal representation, and that's what the HOUSE is for.

The Senate is supposed to be there to prevent the large states ruling over the small states and treating them like District 9's, which 1000% would happen. People living in these less populated states would become 2nd class citizens and all the rules and laws would be made by those in the large cities.

The issue you have is with the House of Representitives. The House has 438 members (435 are voting members). Under the 2020 census, House should actually have about 692 representatives.