A House Divided

Steyn On-line ^ | August 29, 2020 | Tal Bachman

[Who is John Galt?]

The problem with that is we would have added 700 million Latin Americans and 1,000 million sub-Saharan Africans to the North American population. It would become impossible to evict 1.7 billion people.

Most of the populace would probably already be dead, as a result of Leftist mismanagement (picture the Ukrainian famine) and/or government-mandated "re-education" (picture the gulags)...

[Who is John Galt?]

IMO, Option 1, much, much smaller federal government is the only peaceful way to avoid a bloody civil war. The Feds should have no involvement in health, education, & welfare, as well as numerous areas of US life. Agencies such as the FDA should have advisory powers only. However, I doubt both sides could agree to such a radical change in national government.

Given the pace of federal deficit spending, one wonders what the possibilities might be in the event of federal bankruptcy? If the federal dollars stop flowing or become worthless, the States might find new options (a smaller federal government, or peaceful division & reorganization) more appealing...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That is likely because they can’t produce anything. But the two nations would have to set up trade pacts and we would sell foot to the communist nation.

They could easily take down all borders on Day 1 and get flooded with poor, illiterate peasants all demanding their “fair share.” Of course a lot of blacks would be demanding reparations which the new government would have to pay.

It would be a failed third-world sh1thole within a year — the same way the “palestinians” destroyed all the greenhouses gifted to them by the Israelis and every previous colonial state in Africa.

What a fine neighbor that would be.

[Who is John Galt?]

What a fine neighbor that would be.

Seems like a less dangerous version of the status quo: prosperous Red States adjacent to declining & failed Blue States, with the people running the third-world Blue States wanting to loot the Red States, and remake the entire federal republic in their own "sh!t-hole" Blue State image. At least there would be a meaningful border, and a sound legal basis for societal self-defense. If Nancy Pelosi showed up on your doorstep, you could have her arrested for trespassing & deported...

;^)