> This is bad, republican or not, as it essentially undermines democracy. I would suspect that the parties would realign and there would still be healthy polit

> This is bad, republican or not, as it essentially undermines democracy. I would suspect that the parties would realign and there would still be healthy political competition, eventually if not in the short term. > there are certain states that subsidize others This meme is true in some respects, but contains a limited perspective. California is a net contributor of money, but other states are net contributors of other things. Young American technologists, for example, move to the Bay Area. They're not born and trained there to move to the Kentucky technology scene, at least that's not the trend yet. The ranks of the military is disproportionately filled by young people from red states. California is a net importer of water. And so on.