It turns out that two major Brexit movement politicians, Nigel Farage and Aaron Banks, were allowed in the United States and raised funds for a new movement to break up California. This is the article:
http://sfist.com/2017/03/26/latest_calexit_gambit_split_califor.php
They should be declared undesirable aliens and not allowed in the U.S. again.
Commitment to democracy is accepting the results of an election you lost.
The boundaries of American states are somewhat capricious and formed for one reason or another over history. I supposed they could be draw again in 30 different ways that would make some sense. However, we don't need 900 states with 1,800 senators. Every geographic region can find some pretext to being divided further.
This is destabilizing to the United States and is a hostile act.
Every place needs two parties in opposition to each other. It helps keep both parties somewhat more honest and better behaved. Having areas where one party is completely dominant without effective opposition is not good, whether it be Republican or Democrat.
I am not necessarily opposed to all plans for rationalization of state boundaries. If they wanted to keep the number of states fixed to 50 but re-apportion according to population and maybe have states with one senator that might be interesting, but even then I would want to carefully think through all possible ramifications and consequences both immediate and over generations.
And this is what should be considered when you start talking about creating states. It opens up many questions as to what purpose the existence of states serve and the current system of states. They are largely the happenstance of history. In the 21st century we expect equal representation, and don't live in the 18th century where states had property requirements for voting.
One time in the 1970s I got out an atlas and in looking up the population of the states realized that 10% of the population gets 40% of the U.S. Senate and 40% of the population gets 10% of the U.S. Senate. If this gets generally considered I think that 40% of the under represented might not be very happy about it.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Nigel Farage should be denied entry to the U.S. Trump is derelict in allowing him to enter the nation
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