Fine. If DC can't be a state because there's not enough cows, we should combine North and South Dakota into one state because there aren't enough people.
In the Electoral College (forever curse its name *Catholic sign of the cross motion*), if you combined Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana or North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska, you'd only end up with about a Massachusetts. I've been to North Dakota. You see more prairie dogs than people.
Lived in the DC environs decades ago. Arlington, a few minutes across the Potomac, technically, from the district. Just a few years there, but still miss it now and then.
It seemed weird then, seems weird and unjust now that someone can be a US citizen, whole deal, but just because they live on the other side of that line, suddenly they don't get a rep with an actual vote in the legislature. Democracy for some, not all, seems not much of a democracy at all.
I figure your founding fathers did a lot of weird shit, setting stuff up. Some of it had some wisdom. Some less. Some was probably mostly political horse trading. Some of it is more than a bit absurd to hang onto like some ritual centuries later. Like a homeowner refusing to replace the shingles, because they figure the originals must be somehow magical.
So every state where there are more cows than people gets combined into one under these rules? Maybe cows can get a certain percentage of a vote themselves? (They’re less progressive on things climate change and they’re pretty bigoted towards chickens but they’re basically communist on wealth distribution)
Have mentioned occasionally, I semi seriously describe myself as a secessionist mostly bc I think there should be more states. Compared to the schemes I've considered, statehood for DC and PR is very modest. A pipe dream I've kicked around more recently is to partition the states that have more than 20 electoral votes.
Fine. If DC can't be a state because there's not enough cows, we should combine North and South Dakota into one state because there aren't enough people.
In the Electoral College (forever curse its name *Catholic sign of the cross motion*), if you combined Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana or North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska, you'd only end up with about a Massachusetts. I've been to North Dakota. You see more prairie dogs than people.
Lived in the DC environs decades ago. Arlington, a few minutes across the Potomac, technically, from the district. Just a few years there, but still miss it now and then.
It seemed weird then, seems weird and unjust now that someone can be a US citizen, whole deal, but just because they live on the other side of that line, suddenly they don't get a rep with an actual vote in the legislature. Democracy for some, not all, seems not much of a democracy at all.
I figure your founding fathers did a lot of weird shit, setting stuff up. Some of it had some wisdom. Some less. Some was probably mostly political horse trading. Some of it is more than a bit absurd to hang onto like some ritual centuries later. Like a homeowner refusing to replace the shingles, because they figure the originals must be somehow magical.
Republicans should just argue that the Founding Fathers never envisioned 51 states. It’s what Scalia would say.
The Senate is the problem.
That’s the next step in the cult initiation process.
So every state where there are more cows than people gets combined into one under these rules? Maybe cows can get a certain percentage of a vote themselves? (They’re less progressive on things climate change and they’re pretty bigoted towards chickens but they’re basically communist on wealth distribution)
https://www.lautnerfarms.co...
Is Rhode Island a state?
Have mentioned occasionally, I semi seriously describe myself as a secessionist mostly bc I think there should be more states. Compared to the schemes I've considered, statehood for DC and PR is very modest. A pipe dream I've kicked around more recently is to partition the states that have more than 20 electoral votes.
Must remember "lard and master"!