Jarhyn
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- Natural Philosophy, Game Theoretic Ethicist
I have a friend who argued something very salient to me some time ago: the US is simply too big and disparate to efficiently or effectively govern: too many people must agree on too many things to too great of an extent for anything to actually get done except the occasional back-slide at this point.No... it isn't.Right, which is a really good argument for blue-state secession.10,000+ US soilders were killed or maimed in Iraq, over 100,000 Iraqis died, millions permanently displaced. Our derivatives fuck-up dragged the global economy into the shitter. The MAGA wing took Covid so poorly, it helped kill hundreds of thousand more people. I've seen how expansive their fuck ups can be. I don't want to wait five years for everything to collapse, just so the Democrats can regain power, kind of get things back in line and then the GOP given back power because of fucking pronouns that some people just can seem to manage.Take heart. They’re also really good at fucking things up. This will be a master class in that.The GOP is just so damn good at lying to the people.
Our national economy is too intertwined to secede.I don’t want to wait five years either. Nowhere is it set in stone that this nation must always be one nation. Also, almost one in four Americans, mostly in the red states, favor secession, according to a poll referenced by Counterpunch. The Civil War secessionists seceded for a despicable reason, but dating almost to the founding of the republic those favoring secession for any reason have pointed to the 10th amendment as justification for it, and I think regardless of the reason people invoke for secession, whether that reason is good or bad, the 10th amendment argument is a good one.
Well then, fine. Watch everything blow up for the next four years and pray a Democrat can be elected from the carnage, then rinse and repeat for a few more decades. This nation is dysfunctional, and the reason for the dysfunction is that it is two separate nations being held together by the band aid of addiction to an outmoded unionism.
It would be different if instead more cohesive regions would form smaller regional unions.
The problem is that letting significant regions of the country to fall into third world shitholes would wreck more than just those regions.