Regional Subtleties

[jaguar]

You're perfectly fine with telling US states why they should surrender their soverignty to a top-heavy Federation, but here's an opportunity to put your intellectual money where your metaphorical mouth is: show us how much you believe in large centralized governments by telling us you'd accept in one where you were a member of a small minority.

I'm not trying to get into a debate here (this one is messy enough and the US constitution is a pretty damn fine document anyway) but i assume your arguement is it's easier to push change in a smaller government than a larger more monolithic one right? At the same time though, can't the feds override state law anyway, al la californian medial pot laws?

In some ways we're more like what the EU wants to be when it grows up, but in other ways we're 'way different because we're traditionally wary of collectivisim and socialism; as the Soviet experience has shown they don't scale well.

The United Sates of Europe was recently a suggested name but it'll be a long, long time before the EU resembles anything like the US, the history and politics is jsut soo much. I can see some areas merging like military but that kind of soverign control? Nope.

Personally i just think democracy doesn't scale well.