Quote Originally Posted by nomad blue View Post
Texas seems to be a bit of a shitshow lately, with Republicans in charge. I've always wondered though, when they say about States breaking away (seceding?) and they're the Nth biggest economy, how much of that would be lost as it'd move "over the border" back to the USA.

Though they really do need to do something about the senate, where a state like Wyoming has the same votes as somewhere like California.
The "United States" would then be a wholly different country. The popular democracy you call for in the Senate already exists in the House of Representatives. The equal representation of states in the Senate is a defining feature of the American constitutional structure without which the nation could never have been formed. The smaller states in those early days would never have tolerated sacrificing their autonomy to larger states, and so the federal republic would have died aborning.

Think the United Nations Security Council, where the United Kingdom, with its piddling 60 million population, gets the same veto rights as China, with a population 20 times as large. The United Nations could never have been formed if small-population states like the UK and France were not protected from the "democratic" power of behemoths like China.