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No, it really isn't. It's more like a sovereign state loosely bundled under the umbrella of the other states, except it is privileged by virtue of its populatio
by douche 10y ago
No, it really isn't. It's more like a sovereign state loosely bundled under the umbrella of the other states, except it is privileged by virtue of its population to dictate to the other 49 states. By all rights it ought to be segmented up into four or five states. I'm no fan of the Democratic party, and realize that any segmentation of California would result in more democrats in the senate, but even so, California is too big.
- dragonwriter 10y agoActually, California's population reduces, rather than increases, it's political power within the union proportional to its population. > any segmentation of California would result in more democrats in the senate That's actually not true; it's quite easy to divide California into a hyper-Democratic coastal state and a solidly Republican inland state, which would only increase the number of Republicans in the Senate.
- douche 10y agoWell, except in the Senate and the Electoral College. To the extent that California's consumer laws have fucked things up for the rest of us, they deserve to be exorciated. Fucking up the design of gasoline cans should almost be grounds for expulsion from the union...
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Fucking up the design of gasoline cans should almost be grounds for expulsion from the union Expelling California from the union would be an enormous cost saving move for Californians and a huge loss of resources for the union. But, actually, New York does as much leading the rest of the nation in laws and setting standards everyone else ends up complying with because businesses adapt to them as California, and generally in the same direction. So you should probably throw them out, too. Which would economically be the same kind of deal.
- douche 10y agoAnybody that would seriously consider instituting the California-mandated fucking terrible gasoline can designs across their entire company should be drawn and quartered, in the style of the Plantagenet English monarchy.