California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

[u/sweatycat]

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

[u/myadsound]

CA is always the one leading

[u/pomonamike → u/myadsound]

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/LordChunggis → u/pomonamike]

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/linkolphd → u/LordChunggis]

It might be unpopular, but I think the theoretical value of the US structure is precisely that it is slow and anti-reactionary, at least historically. Part of this is that whole minority protection thing. For legislation to pass, there had to be some level of consensus.

Of course, this is all prior to us getting a live demonstration of how nonfunctional our country is if someone just ignores all the gentleman’s agreements we relied on.

If I had to redesign it, I might preserve some of this “protection of the minority” idea, but with an ability for there to be some overturn from the population representation arm. One argument for this, is that while population distribution self-evidently matters a lot, there is also some knowledge and cultural insight that can come from the different lived experiences of smaller groups, like those in smaller states. Deriving some power from that is valid.

That said, the balance is so far off now.