What you have going for you is that your state’s are much more individuals. By design. It well may be too late for your union, but individual states can still make good decisions if there’s the will of the people.
I won’t be surprised if at some point soon{2028 possibly…)that other nations no longer recognize the US as a whole and starts recognizing states as independent. Probably won’t happen I’m not holding my breath but it would make a lot of sense in a worst case scenario/pessimistic perspective
This is a good thing and a bad thing.
I’d agree that there may well be less unity between states. I believe that’s actually what our founders intended- individual states united, without local/state politics being an afterthought.
Problem is our system in concept is based on the idea that the only good source of authority for how to govern is the people who are governed taking an active interest in their own government. Sadly that kind of engaged population hasn’t been the case for a while. Sadly the ones who are pushing for this are more so our conservatives- not for any useful reason but because it gives them more ability to set discriminatory policies against gay people and enforce religion based socially conservative policy in primarily conservative states.
IMHO the only thing that can save us is if the American people once again take active interest in the running of their government. This is easier said than done.
Time and money. People have been losing those 2 things since whatever post ww2 economic upward mobility boom busted.
People cannot be made to spend the entirety of their time on this planet fighting fights they didn’t start. Even spending your entire life fighting one cause can be moot if there isn’t enough will behind it
It’s not a surprise at all that the current status quo is undoing decades of progress and landing everyone right back into a pile of shit that’s harder to get yourself out of without becoming exactly like the people who put others there. It’s the only way to get out of that situation without getting lucky.
Billionaires are born or had a lot of luck and support to get where they are. A trillionaire is such a fucking bad sign of things it’s insane to think this is the moment in history we are witnesses to
What you have going for you is that your state’s are much more individuals. By design. It well may be too late for your union, but individual states can still make good decisions if there’s the will of the people.
I won’t be surprised if at some point soon{2028 possibly…)that other nations no longer recognize the US as a whole and starts recognizing states as independent. Probably won’t happen I’m not holding my breath but it would make a lot of sense in a worst case scenario/pessimistic perspective
This is a good thing and a bad thing.
I’d agree that there may well be less unity between states. I believe that’s actually what our founders intended- individual states united, without local/state politics being an afterthought.
Problem is our system in concept is based on the idea that the only good source of authority for how to govern is the people who are governed taking an active interest in their own government. Sadly that kind of engaged population hasn’t been the case for a while. Sadly the ones who are pushing for this are more so our conservatives- not for any useful reason but because it gives them more ability to set discriminatory policies against gay people and enforce religion based socially conservative policy in primarily conservative states.
IMHO the only thing that can save us is if the American people once again take active interest in the running of their government. This is easier said than done.
Time and money. People have been losing those 2 things since whatever post ww2 economic upward mobility boom busted.
People cannot be made to spend the entirety of their time on this planet fighting fights they didn’t start. Even spending your entire life fighting one cause can be moot if there isn’t enough will behind it
It’s not a surprise at all that the current status quo is undoing decades of progress and landing everyone right back into a pile of shit that’s harder to get yourself out of without becoming exactly like the people who put others there. It’s the only way to get out of that situation without getting lucky.
Billionaires are born or had a lot of luck and support to get where they are. A trillionaire is such a fucking bad sign of things it’s insane to think this is the moment in history we are witnesses to