New California has filed to become the "51st" US state

[palou]

irstupid said:

Errorist76 said:

Last I knew voting works by voice, not by land mass.

It's not by land mass, but by demographics. The rural areas or small cities want completely different things than the big urban cities.

Take video games since we are on this site. How would you like it if every time a publisher was to make a new game they would send out a poll to the masses on what type of game it should be. There are more FPS fans than any other, so every single game from every publisher is a fps game.  Or how about when the Wii was released and they did a poll. The masses would have voted that they want every single game made to be motion controlled cause WIi Sports was fun. Would us forum dwellers on this site like that? We got outvoted, so we can't complain right. Democracy.

It's the same for those non big city places. The governors/senators/ect are making laws that benefit or help the people in the city and either are detrimental to other people or ignore them completely. They wouldn't care about the rural areas cause the number of voters there is insignificant to the big city.

Mob rule is never good rule.

A proportional vote on political parties is NOT mob rule. Voting on a single issue is absolutely unrepresentative of how such a system would work in a real-world scenario.

 

There are many issues at hand, in reality, which overlap, which makes compromises/deals among parties on various issues a necessity to maintain a majority. 

 

Mathematically, increasing the number of unrelated issues should make the decisions of the government tend towards an ideal maximal satisfaction among the populace.

 

 

I also always found that separating regions geographically made little to no sense, as it isn't necessarily the most distinctive separator among demographics (ESPECIALLY with the avenue of globalizing technologies, such as the internet.) 

 

Separating by age group, education, occupation, or income gives a much clearer distinction of interests, I think, than States ever could.

 

 

 

The partisan extremes that have formed in the US have killed any advantages of seeking local representation in the first place. Representatives of both parties will blindly obey party guid lines these days, anyways. 

Last edited by palou - on 17 January 2018