• BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    100% agree with this we limited congress to the size of a building for some stupid reason

    Second conversation. Why are some states large and others big shouldn’t we chop them up more?

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      2 months ago

      Massively agree on the states issue. The original idea was a bunch of little countries that only shared a handful of federal powers. That concept has completely fallen apart and now we’re just an extremely poorly organized country with wildly different sized regions.

      We either need to break every state into roughly the same size or we need to start merging too small states together until we have a collection of California sized states to manage.

      For many people ‘their state’ has little meaning to them beyond sports teams and food trends. They have extremely low interest or engagement in state politics which is a major problem.

      But this is an impossible dream, so we’re pretty much stuck with this horrible arrangement.