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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
I come from the same family as Abraham Lincoln, which landed in Hingham MA in the 1630s, but not a direct relative, as there are none remaining, and I trace my origins back to Lincolnshire, England.
What people forget in their American history class is the UNITED STATES part, a collection of states rights, and that the Constitution was written in a very different time and place, with very different attitudes, but with great intentions for being the best government for the people of the times.
Keeping the union of 50 states with states rights is a huge balancing act, and is getting harder to manage the bigger we grow, and the in the age of worldwide social media, has other governments wanting to subvert through psy-ops. . . .
That is the nature of the human existence, especially in european and western cultures. Similar issues in the Euro, which is a collection of european country rights to try to compete with the US and others collectively.
Humans having some herding instincts find that having a common enemy helps survival and organization for a leader. . . in behavioral psychology, its competitive human organizational games versus cooperative human organizational games. |
What's the solution then? Do we split up the USA into countries? Do we force Texas to secede (which I personally think would be a swell idea)? Do we split up Florida into its own North and South, with south being more progressive-minded and north being less (since that's pretty much how it is now anyway)?
Does the governor become the emperor of his state-nation? What's the duty tax for imports and exports going to look like now? How will they pay for the gas pipeline that is no longer part of their country, since they're no longer one of the United States? Do we have 50 different countries now? Does each region become a single country? Like - New England and New York are now The United States of New America, and the central states become "The United States of North-Central America" and what not?
How would that even work?
It might be necessary, some day. But right now? Not gonna happen. So we need solutions for now.
And right now, we have a "United" country that is "divided" politically to the point where any mention of any "issue" becomes an exercise in futile teeth-gnashing at best, violence at worst.