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Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 months agoI’m all for people staying safe and taking care of themselves, but the problem is moving makes the entire situation worse. Concentrating ourselves into small geographic areas inside cities is what allowed them to gerrymander the shit out of things and get the minority political party locked into outsized political influence.
Every blue voter that leaves a rural area makes the divide worse. So I praise those who are brave enough to stay.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
Then get everyone in those cities to vote to become separate states. That way your vote not only counts for more but can’t be controlled by them anymore.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just casually throwing Federal Laws in the trash, there…
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
No it isn’t. What makes a state a state is historical precedent. There is nothing stopping a local legislature from having a vote and the people voting to declare a city, or probably more accurately a county, a separate state.
Even if it actually did violate the law, they should judt secede and do it anyway, and send representatives to Congress as if it was a state and just emotionally bludgeon everyone else into accepting it as it always has been done.
Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 months ago
What makes a state a state is being ratified by a majority in Congress. I’m not sure you understand how this works. You don’t just get to make a new state because people vote for it.
"Is West Virginia Constitutional?
On the creation of new states, the Constitution is pretty clear. Article IV, Section 3, reads that “no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State … without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”
…archives.gov/…/is-west-virginia-constitutional/
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Try reading The Constitution. What makes a state a state is ratification by Congress. After the Civil War every single state (except Texas, kinda) was forced to sign a treaty that states that cessession is illegal.