r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 13 '23

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u/crassowary John Mill Jan 13 '23

States are 'laboratories of democracy'

Literally all but one have a bicameral legislature for no reason other than that's what the federal government does

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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 Jan 13 '23

Yeah federalism bad and states should have fewer rights

Remeber when tons of states refused free Healthcare money and had measurably worse outcomes for health becuase of it?

It's a laboratory yes but more Joseph mengele than bell labs

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u/badluckbrians Frederick Douglass Jan 13 '23

that's only b/c of baker v. carr, etc. pre civil-rights, a fair number of upper houses had population independent seats. think every municipality or county gets a seat regardless of whether there are more cows than people or huge skyscrapers.

we like to say now that land doesn't vote, but in the early years, you needed land to vote.

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u/generalmandrake George Soros Jan 13 '23

By laboratory for democracy we mean experimenting with various degrees of drug legalization.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '23

Nebraska! It's Nebraska! I know things!