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See This Red Area? This Is Sand (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why don’t the Blue states just enact social democratic policies and let the Red ones rot in their ancap dystopias?

If we assume that the Democratic Party actually wants to do good and not just what their donors want. They still have to contend with a Senate that's is biased towards the empty states, and even the House of Representatives is somewhat biased but not as bad.

Now if the Blue States (or even Counties) form some kind of union to transcend the USA, things might begin to happen.

The EU is a patchwork of rights for example

The EU is a confederacy. It has a much weaker central government and much stronger states. The US could go back to a confederacy model.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What's stopping California or Vermont or whatever from enacting state-level Universal Health Insurance programs or free university or whatever else?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Commerce Clause is one often cited by conservatives. I am not a lawyer but if they can abuse it you bet they will even if that's not what it was meant for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The commerce clause doesn't apply to in-state systems unless they interact with a foreign nation, native tribe, or another state.

What kind of abuse is even possible here?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I saw it brought up against states setting their own emission standards. I don’t agree with it but it is something I have seen them argue.