States play a very important role and I, for one, would never want them to be hobbled in our government.
California is one of the few states that use its authority appropriately. Most state governments just spend their time coming up with inventive ways to ban abortions without technically banning them.
California is one of the few states that use its authority appropriately. Most state governments just spend their time coming up with inventive ways to ban abortions without technically banning them.
Many state governments were also the first to legalize LGBT marriage, leading the way for a federal decision. They are also leading the way on decriminalizing marijuana, which will likely have lasting impacts on our prison system and the war on drugs. Do states often do bad things? Yes, but we can't have it both ways. It will always be a two-steps forward, one step backwards type of system.
Be really careful with that. Part of the reason we still have free speech is that we basically can't rewrite the constitution. Being able to rewrite the constitution would be both really awesome and open Pandora's box of horrors. Which is like the regular Pandora's box, but scarier. There are places than can and do regularly rewrite their version of the constitution, and it comes with it's own problems.
California is one of the few states that use its authority appropriately. Most state governments just spend their time coming up with inventive ways to ban abortions without technically banning them.
Many state governments were also the first to legalize LGBT marriage, leading the way for a federal decision. They are also leading the way on decriminalizing marijuana, which will likely have lasting impacts on our prison system and the war on drugs. Do states often do bad things? Yes, but we can't have it both ways. It will always be a two-steps forward, one step backwards type of system.
Yeah. I still want a structure roughly at that level. I just want to abolish the existing 50 states and draw some number of new ones that actually make sense for America as it is today.
Be really careful with that. Part of the reason we still have free speech is that we basically can't rewrite the constitution.
That's hardly the case at all, we amended the constitution a bunch until about a decade ago and we just stopped and suddenly it's sacred and untouchable.
My knowledge of civics ends with that one class I took for half a year in highschool but I thought every single amendment to the constitution we passed took an overwhelming majority of people/states/whatever votes to push through. Doing any of that today would be basically impossible due to how divided we/the entities that vote are.
So the Imperial Wizard of the KKK apparently just endorsed Donald Trump. I really want this to be him actually doing the country a solid. He knows how many people despise his beliefs so what if he knows Trump would be awful for the country so he's intentionally damaging Trumps image by siding himself with Trump. Not that I think that's what happened, but I want to believe.
I don't know what will be more delicious to my anarchist tendencies... Trump actually running as the nominee or the GOP fucking him and handing it to someone else. I really think I may be in a win-win on this one.
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I'd be all for redrawing states, but MA and CT succckkkkk. (; I feel like we've had this conversation before.
That said, my favorite creperie, coffee shop, and and Italian food are all in Providence, so I can't be too hard on it.
wow.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/trump-ted-cruz-father-222730
has Trump at 96% and Clinton at 95%
Now we see if Trump's campaign really pushes enough Republicans away, or if he can pull together all the crazy racists enough to win the candidacy.