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Even when you take for granted--and we shouldn't, but just for funsies we will--that the whole point of the thing is to make executive decisions about national

Even when you take for granted--and we shouldn't, but just for funsies we will--that the whole point of the thing is to make executive decisions about national needs...why the heck should Nevada get a bigger say than Los Angeles County? It has become evident that the federalist experiment has failed; because an integrated modern society cuts across state lines, while land can't vote and people matter more than land. Everything else is a side effect, no matter how tightly it's clung to by parties whose high-minded rhetoric, if we're being frank, is honored more in the breach than the observance as they look for low-status, low-power people to cudgel, using the guise of federalism to make it easier to do in their own little pond.

nightski 7y ago
It doesn't though. Do you really believe voting is the most powerful way to influence lawmakers? There generally is far more wealth, power, and influence in population centers. How can you feel like some of the most powerful cities in the world are getting an unfair shake?
Redoubts 7y ago
> It has become evident that the federalist experiment has failed Not so much failed, but massively misaligned after the civil war. The nation made many compromises at every level for slave power, and should have renegotiated everything afterwards.
- eropple 7y ago
  Agreed. I should have said that American federalism has failed; that misalignment is endemic to America--it goes back as far as the Missouri bleeping Compromise, and that's just the part labeled "America"--and is probably unfixable. (Though I worry for the EU, too.)
CompanionCuuube 7y ago
> why the heck should Nevada get a bigger say than Los Angeles County? To start with, states are the compositional unit of the United States. If Los Angeles County wants to become its own state, there is a process to do that. But to answer the correct question: Nevada has the same say as California, both being states.
- eropple 7y ago
  "It should be the way it is because that's the way it is." Thank you for illustrating the bankruptcy of the regressive position.
  - CompanionCuuube 7y ago
    How so? What you just said has no bearing on a comment describing that there is a solution to the problem. I guess if you want to just "thoughts and prayers" it then that's your prerogative.

nightski 7y ago

It doesn't though. Do you really believe voting is the most powerful way to influence lawmakers? There generally is far more wealth, power, and influence in population centers. How can you feel like some of the most powerful cities in the world are getting an unfair shake?

Redoubts 7y ago

> It has become evident that the federalist experiment has failed Not so much failed, but massively misaligned after the civil war. The nation made many compromises at every level for slave power, and should have renegotiated everything afterwards.

eropple 7y ago
Agreed. I should have said that American federalism has failed; that misalignment is endemic to America--it goes back as far as the Missouri bleeping Compromise, and that's just the part labeled "America"--and is probably unfixable. (Though I worry for the EU, too.)

CompanionCuuube 7y ago

> why the heck should Nevada get a bigger say than Los Angeles County? To start with, states are the compositional unit of the United States. If Los Angeles County wants to become its own state, there is a process to do that. But to answer the correct question: Nevada has the same say as California, both being states.

eropple 7y ago
"It should be the way it is because that's the way it is." Thank you for illustrating the bankruptcy of the regressive position.
- CompanionCuuube 7y ago
  How so? What you just said has no bearing on a comment describing that there is a solution to the problem. I guess if you want to just "thoughts and prayers" it then that's your prerogative.