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/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/LordChunggis 1d ago

I think the founding fathers would have framed the senate a little differently if they had thought a state like California was even a possibility.

My brother and I have heated arguments on the senate. He says the senate is functioning as intended, "protection of the minority," I call it tyranny of the minority when California and New York have the same Senate representation as South Dakota and Wyoming.

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u/Valderan_CA 1d ago

to be frank - California should be 4 states.

Ironically a number of those states would be potentially republican

If you were to consider the CCEA regions (https://cceanet.org/about-us/regions/) I could see two of those 4 regions being potentially republican (Region III and Region I)

It would be a hell of a lot more fair to Californians and to be frank - make a lot more sense

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u/OneAlmondNut 1d ago

lol you just want to gerrymander California

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u/Valderan_CA 1d ago

I mean CCEA is an an educational support institution, not a political one. I imagine their regions aren't "gerrymandered" but based on a thought out population distribution where the people within those regions have some commonality.

Gerrymandering implies much more artificiality - where the regions are allocated based on creating voting blocs (so not 4 roughly square regions each with a city that would make a reasonably/normal state capital.

Making California into 4 states would mean MORE representation for the average CA resident in the Senate/Presidential race. It would mean presidential candidates actually spending time & money in california and california issues being more relevant during presidential election cycles.

I think that's a good thing - it probably makes someone like Trump less likely to be elected.