r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/myadsound California 1d ago

CA is always the one leading

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u/pomonamike California 1d ago

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.

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u/AndyVale 1d ago edited 1d ago

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 🤷‍♂️

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u/Mel_Melu California 1d ago

God your colleague is ignorant. California is a fucking powerhouse because we're not specialized in one economy.

We have farmers up and down the state producing: rice, fruit (strawberry, citrus etc.), almonds etc. That's ignoring our cheese and dairy farms, not to mention eggs which sadly has been fucking us with this bird flu.

There's a massive tourism industry not just in Southern California where we have the OG Disneyland, Hollywood, San Diego but there's also wine country up north in Sonoma and Napa Valley (oh hey more farming). And little cute spots like Solving or the gorgeous views of Pacific Coast Highway (route 1), Hearst Castle and the Winchester house. And the park system- Joshua Tree, Redwood and Sequoia forests and obviously Yosemite.

This is ignoring our plethora of sports and concert venues. There's a reason we were picked by the Olympics committee to host the next one.

There's the Port of fucking Los Angeles a very important shipping operation.

We have not one but three different post secondary education systems: University of California (UC-9 plus two professional schools), California State (Cal-State 20+) and of course private four year colleges and a multitude of community colleges.

This is just off the top of my head, California is fucking amazing place to live and we are more than just "techie liberals".

Sincerely,

A very proud Californian Social Worker

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u/AndyVale 1d ago

I will also say that I enjoyed sampling the local cider when I was there from the UK a few months ago. Some of the bars and restaurants in San Fran really knew what they were talking about when I asked about it.