We live in a sad time when a stunningly ignorant imbecile who believes he can can see children with “mitochondrial challenges” is in charge of public health, and this news post about vaccines can just as accurately be posted in a political sub.
Because of Trump and his worshiping morons 180,000 American’s needlessly died during the worst of COVID, but that’s not enough. Trump and his ilk want more people to die from diseases that were previously nearly gone.
Polio, Whooping Cough, Measles, and even Small Pox are now welcome in Trump’s America.
California alone has almost twice the GDP of the entire country of Canada, and nearly as many people. They wouldn’t just become part of it, they’d make up most of it.
Besides, even as left-leaning states I would be concerned about that many Americans joining my country. Canada would lose its identity.
Fair enough - maybe it could become its own country then.
Maps change. It’s the only real constant throughout history. May be sooner. May be later. But eventually, even the most resolute borders change as do nation-states. You don’t have to go any further back that Yugoslavia, Serbia, etc… for example. It would be arrogance to presume that it won’t happen here at some point.
Not of we join them and become a separate nation. We can form our own west coast identity. We are already different from most of Canada and have very little representation in our own politics. The East Coast gets all the love and all the funding, the west is left to fend for itself mostly, and we do alright.
West coast gets 6 senators.
The 4 least populous states on the east coast are Maine, Rhode Island, Delaware, and New Hampshire. They get 8 senators with a fraction of the population.
These states have about 5 million people. California alone has nearly 40 million people
That’s because California is so fucking massive. We could break it into 4+ states and it would probably benefit the Dems in Congress
It would not creat more seats though, maybe a couple. The East is over represented and the west is under represented. Period. We keep getting shafted by terrible policy that doesn’t have a place in our environments. If we weren’t doing things ourselves, shit wouldn’t get done.
What we need is to repeal the Reapportionment Act of 1929 that limits the House of Representatives at 435 members.
That’s what’s really fucking states like California.
Each new state would get 2 senators added to the senate. You are right about the house of Representatives though