"I think California should lose statehood."
It's _mandated_ in the Constitution; granted, in Article IV where the responsibility for doing so is not defined, in the last Section 4:
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...."
As in, we're in theory a republic, not a democracy (which doesn't scale up much beyond a city-state like Athens of legend, and boy are their some horror stories from that period).
California's gone so far past even a fig leaf of honestly electing representatives of the people ... heck, I just read a Republican holdout polity has been ordered to move to ranked choice voting because At Large city rep systems are unfair to minorities. They've outlawed checking ID in elections, I can go on and on, but the taking up to a month to "count" ballots is really all you need to know, it's such a huge red flag.
Sinistra delenda est.
npub13r…m3jlt
2026-07-10 02:01:21 UTC
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