10-27-2020, 02:32 PM
(10-26-2020, 11:21 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I guess I never quite got why an uneven distribution of people should affect things so much. I've lived in different states in my life and never felt like my sway over the election should grow or shrink depending on where I was. I will say neo-cons are lucky California wasn't divided into about 15 different states when the borders were drawn up.
Hell, from Eisenhower to Bush #1 CA went republican 9 out of 10 times. Methinks the right wing just needs to up their campaign game.
At any rate, I can grasp the idea of the EC but I'd have an easier time just rolling with it if we hadn't reached a point where the will of Florida has so much sway over the entire country.
Outside of the major cities CA leans heavily conservative. A very extreme brand of far left belief has taken root in parts of CA, so much so that the quality of life here has dropped dramatically over the past two decades. The crazy part is people are fleeing the state because of this and the rampant taxes, then they move to other states and vote the exact same way that created the reasons they fled CA. I've mentioned this before, but we provide free health care to illegal migrants, but my nephews have to pay (well their parents do) for their own school supplies for the year. It's far from the most egregious example of the far left idiocy in this state, but it's one that obviously hits close to home for me.
