If it were to split, I think it would be three countries, East Coast, West Coast, and everything else
Yeah, they can have Greenland.
We should be split into 5 or six confederations of states.
If the South had been allowed to peacefully secede in 1860, that’s where we’d be today.
And, far, far better off, I might add.
. The most that could happen, barring total dissolution of the country, would be an arrangement like France, where there are urban islands of elitists surrounded by a ring of barbarians, and the rest a rural hinterland. Sort of works, but not well.
In the US, only a mass abandonment of national identity could suffice to dissipate the current passions. “globalists” with no allegiance to anyone but themselves, such as we are seeing with major corporations and their mandarins, would ally with foreign hegemons of convenience, mostly Chinese, by present context.
The remainder of us, “Americans,” would be shadows of former selves, nominally a country but held in economic bondage by the global financial, cultural and governmental entities.
It would be several countries and that may happen sooner than you think.
Things are what they are and I do wish America to end as it is. It is a banana republic with a corrupt state police (FBI) and a corrupt judiciary. If it doesn't end it will be because it has become a full blown dictatorship and Americans will be under house arrest or in detention camps.
It's a damn shame some sort of legal negotiating process hasn't been started already to facilitate a peaceful breakup. Without that, the breakup is likely going to be violent and bloody. That I don't want. I also don't want to live in fear of the state police smashing my door and hauling me off to an American Lubyanka. Which has already happened in DC a la Jan 6.
How does something like this ever happen?
Would states try to secede from the union? Would groups of states try to secede from the union?
Would our union dissolve, similar to how the Soviet Union dissolved? As I recall, the countries in the Soviet Union collectively decided to go their own ways, and the Soviet Union was disbanded. A corresponding event in America would need states to decide to dissolve our union, right?
As I understand it, the constitution has provisions for adding new states, but no provision for states to leave the union.
Which brings us back to how would this, legally and constitutionally, ever be able to occur?
If one looks at the red-blue counties map, there is no viable way to ‘split’ the country. Most blue areas are the metro areas.
Also, if it did split by state, leftists would still move to the red states when they get tired of living in the messes they made in the blue states. That is what they do. That is how states like Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and others used to trend right and now trend left. Even Texas is wobbly with Houston, Dallas and Austin being far from ‘red’.
And areas cycle over time. That is what happened to the old solid Democrat southern states. Most of them are solidly Republican — now. Reagan’s California was Republican. New York state used to be staunchly Republican.
The vaxxed should move to the lib states.
If the United States splits up the progressives/leftists/socialists/communists/whatever and whoever they really are, win a major campaign in the war for control. After that, they will continue the war for control in the areas they didn’t win this time.
It will be more than two countries, probably 4 or more.
Wrote about this back in 2014. Title of thread - “Maybe It’s Time To Do What India Did”
“The overwhelming evidence present in the public domain today strongly suggests that the United States of America will separate into two countries in less than fifty years.“
China, Russia, and Iran’s deepest desire.
I can easily visualize the country of Los Angeles including most of the urban suburbs and the coastal south of California. It is equally easy to visualize a northwest alliance of Seattle, Portland and the bay area looking for autonomy.
On the east coast you have NYC and suburbs, they are already acting like they are their own country. You have the liberal ministates like Rhode Island , New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut that pretty much think the civilized world revolves around them.
The rest of the country is pretty solid with similar values except a Madison Wi, Detroit and Chicago corridor in the great lakes area which also have the disease of liberalism rampant in their governments.
I wish they would because we could declare war and blast them away and then we could be one nation under God again!
I’m not ceding a single inch of my country to the criminal Democrats.
Come and get some.
30 + comments and no one listed Kurt Schlichter’s : The People’s Republic?
Witty story of how the US splits up. Pretty good read. The second book is better. And so on.
Clever, how the writer introduces a novel, confusing term without first exactly defining it, and - especially - explaining how it is at all relevant to the discussion!
Good way to string the reader along!
Regards,