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Dulfite on 07 February 2020
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cycycychris said:
Dulfite said:

The rest of the world, to my knowledge, doesn't value statehood like we do in America. We are really 50 nations bonded together as one United grouping. That's how we started out as,how we were until civil war, and honestly how we still are.

We are bound to the Constitution which requires supermajority of states voting to change. States still have national guards and militias. The concept of the Senate is founded on the idea that states will perpetually have significant weight in government. Otherwise San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago would shove their liberal views down the throats of rural America with no concern for the values of the people there. Even becoming a state is extremely difficult because of how valued it is. 

This isn't a politics thread guys, let's leave the political stuff like the bolded at the door.

I really wasn't trying to trigger anyone, sorry. I'd have said conservative mega cities as well, but there aren't any. Liberals tend to live in major cities and conservatives tend to be spread out in the countryside.

Anyway, I was just trying to prove why states in the US are so important and powerful in comparison to at least most of the rest of the world's federal systems. We could never have something like the recent election in UK happen because the Senate will probably always be balanced out with moderate swing votes or slightly leaning right due to the way it's all set up. I'm rather thankful we don't just have the House of Representatives as then a national election could bring in sweeping changes that hurt the Midwest (my home) simply based on what big city folks want.