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Here we go, dissolution of the U.S. is starting. It's a slow roll, but i think that's where we are headed
been thinking and saying for years that we’re on the path to a soviet style balkanization. just wasn’t sure what would be the spark. this certainly smells like one.
I would love to visit the country of California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZCaDI0nYf0
The US has been there before with the Nullification Crisis of 1832. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_crisis?wprov=sfla1
I guess history really does rhyme.
Well the south finally will get to leave the union and form florida-man-istan, jesus-wasteland-istan and all-hat-no-cattle-istan. Good luck to them. We should have a going away party before we put up a wall to keep them from trying to get back in.
Why not let them back in? There's some good people in the red states; it's a shame we can't easily relocate all of them.
...we'll have to check their voting history first.
Nothing says a wall can't have a door in it. If you want to come here, and aren't a total douchebag, we can let you in. Maybe even let you stay if you want to. 🤣
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
I escaped the south, they need to as well.
The amount of absolute evil down there is unimaginable.
We need to build a wall.
Will it be California first? Or maybe Alaska? Hawaii? We know one's gonna try and split, just not which.
Cheeto will 'gift' Russia Alaska for its help with Greenland
Not Hawaii at least in my opinion. The military foothold is too high, California might have a similar problem but the state is so much bigger that I don't think that it is as much of an issue. I think Alaska is most likely though. Might pull a Texas and succeed and then ask to become a part of Canada.
Sadly it's a near inevitable outcome of an overly powerful Federal Government attempting to deal with a population this large. The more powerful the Federal Government gets the less able it is to balance the different desires of its citizens and the less popular it becomes.
The solution was to NOT have such a powerful Federal Government but we tossed that out the window around somewhere between 1900 and 1920. It may not happen now over this but the clock is ticking and it's going to happen at some point over something.
It will be terrifying and terrible when it happens.
A lot of this could be fixed by reforming the senate which is a big part of why that will never happen.
Agreed the problem was baked in during the Ohio Compromise and at other times, it has nothing to do with population size because we're talking about a small number of elites, not popular will.
Unfortunately, we keep giving a small amount of people a lot of power. The cons have way too much representation in relation to their numbers. The other huge problem is that we have a system of legalized bribery, which is just insanity.
If Texas somehow joins California, were fucked
Texas? Unlikely
I think that's a reference to the Civil War movie a while back.
Bingo
I think it would be much more likely for the west coast as a whole to split. WA, OR, CA
Suck it, Manifest Destiny!
I could also see Nevada, Arizona, and maybe even Idaho joining. Though Idaho would probably need to have it pointed out that they're fucked without the other western states.
We've been heading there for a long time and much of the rest of the world has been feeding into the two-sides divide. It's easier to see when you already loathe both sides for different reasons. But the US has been a powerhouse many would love to see taken down. Generations of work towards that are paying off, and the US working class will suffer the most.