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/Rinzack 14h ago

I remember discussing this with an American acquaintance saying I didn't get the electoral college.

It's because the US was originally designed to be just that- a union of states in a similar vein to where the EU is now- That's why the lower house was set up to represent the people and the upper house was set up to represent the states themselves to try and capture that dual-nature of who the federal govt is supposed to represent.

It goes without saying that the modern US is waaaaaay far off from the original idea and its a much more federalized system than initially intended