04-09-2018, 01:39 PM
(04-09-2018, 11:04 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I have to say, having grown up in Orange County, that your back and forth on this subject has been entertaining. Orange County used to be staunchly GOP and largely white. Of late both statements are much less true. What you're also ignoring is that CA was very GOP oriented until the past twenty years or so. Additionally, the rural areas are, as is often the case, still very red. The problem we're having in CA is that the urban areas have gotten more and more extreme in their ideology and they can, by dint of their population, force their agenda down the throats of others. People make a lot of hay over Clinton winning CA by 3 million votes. What that ignores is that 4 million people in this state voted for Trump, a number larger than the population of almost half the states in the Union. How disenfranchised do you think those people feel? That's why you're getting this blow back now, Sacramento went too far.
I am sitting on the urge, right now, to discuss how this would be good evidence for removing the electoral college and how proportional representation (potentially with in larger districts for state level) would be superior in the representation of the people when compared to the current system of districts for becoming a more representative and democratic society.
But I won't harp on those issues.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
