Lot's of good ideas and advice, but what I think is most important is the 17th amendment and the Senate.
Popular election of the Senate throws the whole purpose out. The Senate is supposed to represent the States, and Senators were selected from the State Legislature, who had already been seated by popular vote.
Popular vote allows people such as Al Franken, Hillary Clinton, etc...who have never held elected office, to be a Senator for 6 years. This is ridiculous.
Instead of being a more thoughtful and deliberate body concerning the individual state's needs and wants, the Senate is now a smaller House of Representatives with terms three times longer.
We need to repeal the 17th amendment is we are ever going to get back to state's rights and more checks and balances.
There have been initiatives to break up Commiefornia, but I don't recall seeing any for Florida, Texas, or New York. The consequences of these initiatives depend greatly on where the deep blue metro areas fall within the new state borders, especially whether the currently merging multiple megalopolises each get split apart to be the capitols of multiple new states. They may end up with only a paltry handful of representatives after apportionment, but they'll each have 2 deep blue senators.
I can't see breaking a state up unless the citizens want to do it. Lot's of people in states along the West coast want to escape the tyranny of the blue cities, so there has been interest in the state of "Jefferson" or "Greater Idaho".
Florida has no interest in breaking up, and I can guarantee that Texas will never in a million years let that happen.
This is getting ahead of the problem, which is the 17th amendment. Until we change things back to the way the Senators were supposed to be selected, state borders are not the answer.
I wouldn't mind more Congressional districts, that would be fine.
I went to grad school in Texas in the 80s. I was told by locals that there was a provision in the Texas constitution allowing it to break into five states.
If California wants to remain a giant state in order to allocate water rights, so be it. But if they want more senate representation, they should be allowed to do so -- by breaking up.
As for "Commiefornia", that's a good subject for a post by itself.
But can you imagine Texans wanting to break up Texas? I always thought their identity as Texan was a big deal. As the old advertisement use to say, "It's like a whole other country!"
And yes, I would love for you to do something on CA! Especially since they try to make laws that force businesses, such as auto makers, to make other states have to comply.
The absolute incompetence in their use of water is bad enough.
I don't disagree the 17th needs to be repealed, but other than Prohibition (18th), no other amendment has ever been fully repealed. I think secession movements have a greater likelihood of success than repeal of the 17th, given the smaller electorates involved in secession and how much the leftists love having the Senate popularly elected. Not to mention the innate advantage of packing the Senate with more democrats, a la DC and PR statehood proposals.
Repeal would be a tough sell in today's world, where knowledge of how and why this system was put in place is unknown. Civics need to be taught once again.
Secession movements will grow stronger if things keep getting crazier. This is not what states signed up for when they signed onto the Union. The contract has been broken if the Constitution isn't taken seriously anymore.
Lot's of good ideas and advice, but what I think is most important is the 17th amendment and the Senate.
Popular election of the Senate throws the whole purpose out. The Senate is supposed to represent the States, and Senators were selected from the State Legislature, who had already been seated by popular vote.
Popular vote allows people such as Al Franken, Hillary Clinton, etc...who have never held elected office, to be a Senator for 6 years. This is ridiculous.
Instead of being a more thoughtful and deliberate body concerning the individual state's needs and wants, the Senate is now a smaller House of Representatives with terms three times longer.
We need to repeal the 17th amendment is we are ever going to get back to state's rights and more checks and balances.
Agreed. Need to break up the bigger states so the legislatures which appoint Senators are sufficiently democratic.
There have been initiatives to break up Commiefornia, but I don't recall seeing any for Florida, Texas, or New York. The consequences of these initiatives depend greatly on where the deep blue metro areas fall within the new state borders, especially whether the currently merging multiple megalopolises each get split apart to be the capitols of multiple new states. They may end up with only a paltry handful of representatives after apportionment, but they'll each have 2 deep blue senators.
There were proposals to break Texas into five states going back to when Texas was admitted to the US.
I can't see breaking a state up unless the citizens want to do it. Lot's of people in states along the West coast want to escape the tyranny of the blue cities, so there has been interest in the state of "Jefferson" or "Greater Idaho".
Florida has no interest in breaking up, and I can guarantee that Texas will never in a million years let that happen.
This is getting ahead of the problem, which is the 17th amendment. Until we change things back to the way the Senators were supposed to be selected, state borders are not the answer.
I wouldn't mind more Congressional districts, that would be fine.
I went to grad school in Texas in the 80s. I was told by locals that there was a provision in the Texas constitution allowing it to break into five states.
If California wants to remain a giant state in order to allocate water rights, so be it. But if they want more senate representation, they should be allowed to do so -- by breaking up.
As for "Commiefornia", that's a good subject for a post by itself.
But can you imagine Texans wanting to break up Texas? I always thought their identity as Texan was a big deal. As the old advertisement use to say, "It's like a whole other country!"
And yes, I would love for you to do something on CA! Especially since they try to make laws that force businesses, such as auto makers, to make other states have to comply.
The absolute incompetence in their use of water is bad enough.
I don't disagree the 17th needs to be repealed, but other than Prohibition (18th), no other amendment has ever been fully repealed. I think secession movements have a greater likelihood of success than repeal of the 17th, given the smaller electorates involved in secession and how much the leftists love having the Senate popularly elected. Not to mention the innate advantage of packing the Senate with more democrats, a la DC and PR statehood proposals.
Repeal would be a tough sell in today's world, where knowledge of how and why this system was put in place is unknown. Civics need to be taught once again.
Secession movements will grow stronger if things keep getting crazier. This is not what states signed up for when they signed onto the Union. The contract has been broken if the Constitution isn't taken seriously anymore.