PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) - On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon ...
On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
This is so damn odd, it's a state. Just move. It's not another country. Shit like this is what makes me think we should just abolish the states honestly. This mindset is weird
Just move is a perfectly legitimate idea when the only reason you want to move is because a political ideology. Not even political ideology wanting to impose your political ideology. If this was an economic issue I would never say just move. If this was a persecution issue I would never say just move. If this was any legitimate issue I would never say just move. However this is obviously, pathetically obviously, none of those things. They don't like the people around them. They're bigots. Bigots should move.
Frankly I think it's absurd that you're even suggesting that they have some kind of legitimate gripe. Equating their issue to anything legitimate is beyond ignorant.
Considering that it's just some imaginary line in the dirt that a bunch of people agree on the location of, yeah it's a lot more rational than everything you go through to physically move
The concept of "Idaho" is an entirely societally defined concept. If everyone agrees you are in Idaho, then you are in Idaho. If all you care about is being in Idaho, and you can do that with less effort and resources than physically moving across state lines, why wouldn't you do that?
I think it's a pretty short sighted and selfish thing to do, but it is entirely rational.
If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you can't afford to move. You can't afford the moving van, you certainly can't afford a week or two without work, and you can't afford to go to job interviews in the place where you want to live.
But if you don't have to move, and instead you work with people around you to change the current geopolitical structure, that's something that you can help be a part of by signing a petition or driving down to your town hall it's a month for a meeting.
I agree with you that overall it would make sense for people to move, but logistically many of them can't. And even if they could, maybe they like the place they live. Maybe they're lucky enough to own property, and the problem they have is not with their neighborhood, so they'd rather not replace it.
Seems like a stupid vote then: choose to leave a state with at least some services to join one without, just to make it easier for a few landowners to extract resources without regard to the environment
The United States formed as a group of semi-sovereign political entities that wanted to make their own laws, but needed a common defense, foreign, and trade policy to prevent recolonization.
The founding fathers knew that the country wouldn't agree on everything, so they set up a system where a lot of decisions would be made by more local officials.
Other federations work on the same principle. It is a lot easier to get political consensus in a smaller group than a larger one, so a lot of decisions are pushed to more local entities.