States are a relic of the past. It’s time to get rid of them.

[Right_in_Virginia]

These idiots think we're stupid. They want to get rid of the EC... nope! So they think they'll just propose getting rid of states altogether and we won't notice that'll get rid of the EC too.

So true!

[Cripplecreek]

Is there any real difference beside the name?

For all intensive purposes they operate as states.

[240B]

Is there any real difference beside the name?

No, not really. Commonwealth is the 17th century precursor to what modern States are today.

• 1   archaic   :  commonweal 2
• 2    :  a nation, state, or other political unit: asa  :  one founded on law and united by compact or tacit agreement of the people for the common goodb  :  one in which supreme authority is vested in the peoplec  :  republic
• 3   capitalized a  :  the English state from the death of Charles I in 1649 to the Restoration in 1660b  :  protectorate 1b
• 4   :  a state of the United States —used officially of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia

[bolobaby]

@Frank Cannon

Nice - a gif of a guy tossing a Bible over his shoulder and calling it shit.

Hrm.

[r9etb]

Our states are no longer culturally diverse regions with their own respective identities; rather, they are artificially constructed geographic entities that certainly would not be formed today.

Just that statement alone demonstrates the depths of the excrement from which Mr. Samuel dredged his stupid idea.  Maybe he just doesn't know or visit states outside of the protected intellectual confines in which he spends his days.

[Frank Cannon]

@Frank Cannon

Nice - a gif of a guy tossing a Bible over his shoulder and calling it shit.

Hrm.

How do you know it's a bible?

[Wingnut]

States are a relic of the past. It’s time to get rid of them.


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[Idaho_Cowboy]

@Frank Cannon

Nice - a gif of a guy tossing a Bible over his shoulder and calling it shit.

Hrm.

Just try that with a Koran....

[IsailedawayfromFR]

States are a relic of the past. It’s time to get rid of them.
By Lawrence R. Samuel November 15 at 2:05 PM

Lawrence R. Samuel is a Miami-based author whose books include “The American Dream: A Cultural History” and “The American Middle Class: A Cultural History.”

While Donald Trump resoundingly won the electoral college — the state-based “point system” we’ve used in presidential elections for more than two centuries — Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 780,000 as of a week out of the election. In other words, more Americans wanted Clinton to win, reason enough to revisit the wisdom of using the electoral college to determine elections. But a larger, more important argument is often overlooked in this ongoing debate.

The United States of America: We use the phrase all the time but rarely think of what the words actually mean. In 1776, when this country officially became the United States of America, the words signified a bold idea. Geographic neighbors had formed alliances previously in history to form nations, of course, but these united states shared a vision and philosophy that was literally revolutionary.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/11/15/states-are-a-relic-of-the-past-its-time-to-get-rid-of-them/?utm_term=.8caa0dde1b34

Flush that garbage down the bin along with any other article from the Washington Post.

[DCPatriot]

These idiots think we're stupid. They want to get rid of the EC... nope! So they think they'll just propose getting rid of states altogether and we won't notice that'll get rid of the EC too.

Evidently, they want a "Hunger Games" setup.....where you have Washington, DC ruling over thousands of 'Colonies'.

No thanks.   

[Frank Cannon]

Just try that with a Koran....

I don't know if you can. The last one I saw looked pretty heavy for tossing.....

[Idaho_Cowboy]

I don't know if you can. The last one I saw looked pretty heavy for tossing.....