California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

[u/sweatycat]

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

[u/LordChunggis]

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.

[u/Valderan_CA → u/LordChunggis]

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

[u/OneAlmondNut → u/Valderan_CA]

lol you just want to gerrymander California

[u/Valderan_CA → u/OneAlmondNut]

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.