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/9793287233 North Carolina 1d ago

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

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u/Dmienduerst 1d ago

To make a devil's advocate case on why the electoral college and Senate system exists and is positive. There is always going to be a give and take so the design of the government gives the will of the populous three different representatives to vote for. The techies in California in theory should have more representation in the house and have bigger weight in the presidential election due to them controlling a big chunk of electoral votes. The Senate exists so that the more populus states can't control the three major governing bodies through vote count alone. It gives a state like Wyoming a singular avenue where their voice and will has greater or equal to weight as California. If the Senate system was more populus in nature then Wyoming representatives would have to form coalitions to even bring any conversation of changes to the table. Now they can create a discussion in the Senate that can't easily be tabled by the will of the more populated states alone.

Devil's advocate argument over.

What has happened though is that the system hasn't been updated for modern times. The Senate system I still think mostly works though I do think the Senate having more natural powers vs the House is leaning into the idea that we let the Elites run the country. The updates I'm talking about are two main things. The all or nothing nature of the electoral college has always been a disaster and should do a better job of representing "THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE" and stop gamifying the presidential race. Red voters in California are just as disencetivized to care about voting as the blue voters are when it's a bunch of swing states deciding the election for the blue voters and the red voters never get represented in the electoral college.

The second major issue is the house having a cap of the number of people along with gerrymandering of states like Wisconsin has massively influenced the house majority. The power of the house is that the populus should have its will represented. Instead a state like Wisconsin which is basically as 50/50 as they come is sending 6 Republicans and 2 Democrats to the house. Do that enough times across the 50 states and either party could coop control from the populus.

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u/ActOdd8937 1d ago

*Populous--has a lot of people in it.

*Populace--the people in question.

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u/Dinkleberg2845 22h ago

"populus" is just the latin word for populace (a spelling which doesn't make any sense to begin with)