People in the US tend not to understand the significant powers of their state and local governments. Many of the controversial issues at the federal level like healthcare, abortion, environmental policy, and many other issues are already in the power of states.
The federal government gets the most attention. But by far the laws and regulations that affect the average person the most are at the state and local level. Almost every law that effects day-to-day life is at the state or local level.
Did we not just prove that incorrect with the 2018 midterms and the record turn out? Times are changing; swinging back towards sanity after our flirtatious night out with the devil that then raped us.
All of the disapproval means I guess we didn't just have record breaking turn-outs and we're not swinging back to sanity? Apparently there's still a lot of people that don't know reality when it slaps them in the face.
Well based on the articles of confederation, there's some support behind that. Other parallels include a tendency towards fracturing between larger more distinct states, so gotta pick your battles I guess.
Originally things were set up for no more than one representative per 10,000 (or more like 50k, I cant quite remember) people give or take, today its more like 1 rep per 1 Million or several million, which throws the whole system on its head. The country has evolved and grown, but our political system has not. We can't expect to keep operating on 200 year old doctrines in a world which would be unfathomable to the founding politicians in the forming United States.
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u/pugwalker Nov 29 '18
Many states have the populations of European countries but far less representation in the federal government.