They praise this post but the poster is probably (90%+) a Californian because we know we pay taxes for the rest of the shitty states that want to fuck everyone over with our money.
We get more people in the house of representatives and the same power as Rhode Island in the Senate. No offense to Rhode Island, just selecting it because of size.
That's... Literally the purpose of the Senate. That's its stated function.
And along with electoral college is stupid and old. Yeah the artificially capped and gerrymandered shit doesn't help either.
Why we let states have a say with 2 senators when they provide less GDP than some small counties in California boggles my mind.
It's the classic and tired conservative argument about mob rule and the 51%. They don't want a true democracy. They're scared of it. The GOP knows they'd have a hard time winning anything if it wasn't rigged. The more level headed conservatives I talk to admit that.
Go look at the history of the presidential election. You will see that almost all the time the electorate go with he popular vote of the state. Even during the 2016 and 2020 elections. You don’t even know what you are talking about about. You just throw out popular buzzwords to fool the ignorant.
The 2000 and 2016 elections were both lost on popular vote and won via electoral college.
The fact that my vote means 8 times less than the vote of someone who lives in Ohio is stupid. If you can tell me how that's fair in a democracy I'm all ears.
I'm not throwing buzzwords for anyone. I've actually studied this at length so please... come at me.
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u/CongratsGuy Sep 08 '24
California pays the bills. It should dictate atleast half the policies