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In reply to the discussion: Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence [View all]brush
(54,241 posts)presidential elections. Thanks to the Electoral College, that racist relic from slavery that we still use to select our president, voters in a small state like Wyoming with less than 700k people have 4 times more weight than the 39 million Californians' votes.
California has the 6th largest economy in the world, that's right, in the world.
It supplies much of the rest of the US with food from its agriculture, has its own financial exchanges, ports, manufacturing it could stand on its own.
Hell, how many times have we heard recently that if we just cut out California's votes, trump would have won the popular vote?
I wouldn't blame California, if there is no willingness from the Federal government to at least adjust and equalize the EC vote weighting, to consider making a case for independence.