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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoSee, I disagree with the last sentiment, because the states with the majority of people SHOULD make the decisions. That’s pretty much the definition of Democracy. A state with 1/500th of the people which drill oil and mine coal should not get to decide, for example, environmental policy and power infrastructure at the same level as the states with all of the people. The small state which are heavily indoctrinated to a specific religious doctrine should not dictate how we approach bodily autonomy. A small state which only gets news from radio and cable TV owned by a monopoly should not decide our foreign affairs.
They should fucking Lump it, and appreciate their autonomy on local economy.
Bravo@eviltoast.org 4 weeks ago
That’s a cheat, though. Both the American and EU states only agreed to join their respective unions in the first place on the promise that these systems of balances would give them this level of input on union policy. Without such assurances, what small nation would ever agree to become inevitably subordinate to the whims of a larger state? It would never happen, and the western world would remain fractured into small nation-states constantly warring with each other, failing to cooperate and probably getting picked off, one by one, by nations like China or Russia which have no such qualms about forcing a union through conquest.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Problems is, seccession is illegal in the US, and attempting secede is practically impossible unless the federal government intentionally allows it to, unlawfully, happen.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I assure you there are more than enough reasons for cooperation and collectivism without being disproportionately represented.
A history book eould tell you war is omnipresent throughout all of human society.