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Our union is already fried. I'm honestly just trying to be pragmatic. The US has something like 14 distinct subregions, and we'd probably be much better off like the EU; a bunch of legally sovereign partner states under a trade federation.
Honestly, tell me, what path do you see for getting the federal government back to even 1990s level of functionality? Because I really don't see one that isn't made of pure cope and delusion. I'm not trying to put you down, I honest to goodness don't see a way back from this. We've missed so many legitimate chances to save the union over the last thirty years, even in the last four years. These opportunities have reliably been passed up by cowards, fools, gluttons for money and/or power, and people too busy performing to political high roading to actually do the needful and difficult work called for by these times, and I think our last chance might have sailed. This is it, we've hit the end of the road, there's no clever tweet, great speaker, or national Messiah to lead us back from the brink; we're either going to tip into naked fascism and all that goes with it, or we walk away. What comes next will not be resolved by anything that will make a feel-good moving in twenty or thirty years. Imo, balkanization is the most practical and least violent of all outcomes for everybody.
Yet you still show up to your job everyday as if nothing is happening at all. I agree with most of what you're saying. That's why I've stock piled a ton of ammo and supplies to live off grid. I'm actually excited for the fascist takeover. Then it's free range on these traitors. Luckily I live in BFE and own property in the boonies. I don't agree that balkanization is the answer though. If we can't stay a union we're all fucked, just like the Balkans 😂.
Why are we all fucked if we can't stay a union? I don't see how this is less practical than going off grid and sniping people.
Because that won't work. You'll just leave the rich to take over each piece of the pie and we'll be even more at the whims of the rich than right now plus killing each other. Either we stay in a union or we devolve into killing each other. Regardless of which outcome I'm not taking any chances.