OPINION: America would be in a significantly less fucked up place if California and Washington had a proportional amount of power in government compared to their population.
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galaxy brain take on US govt structure: devolve more power to states and have a 'minarhist style' federal govt
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who are you Thomas Jefferson or something?
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Jefferson wanted (almost-)anarchism, didn't he?
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yes exactly that's why I mentioned him. his vision of democracy was minarchist at the federal level and libertarian at the state level.
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i really know nothing about US history other than 'people came over, people weren't happy with tax, people made big cuppa in boston harbour, ... bad country exists'
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it's not a bad country it's a complicated country that is currently paralyzed from solving the problems of its bad people in positions of power. bad things were done in the past. its a tragic history but we're moving forward.
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i mean i've had a bit to drink now so maybe this isn't perfectly coherent but oh well, I just really have always thought the way the US operates is a terrible affront to the way i think things should work
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it's very hard to understand our contradictions unless you've lived here. we're both the best and the worst of what humanity has to offer. freedom and slavery. love and hate. wealth and poverty. we do it all.
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I'm counting three Amendments. As long as we're doing the impossible why not just an Amendment to annihilate the United States
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the constitution has been amended 27 times I agree that present politics don't seem likely to pass amendments like these but I still find value in expressing a vision of what to work towards in the future
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the 27th amendment was submitted 202 years before it was finally ratified
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