[DTogo]

Why does America have to continue in it's current form with 50 states?

On it's current course toward fiscal/social collapse, preemption by secession might not be a bad idea and a more peaceful solution.

Not so much for the remaining Liberal-filled states, which would lose their productive citizens and likely end up in fiscal/social collapse anyway.

[af_vet_rr]

On it's current course toward fiscal/social collapse, preemption by secession might not be a bad idea and a more peaceful solution.

Any kind of secession would not be peaceful because the states are divided internally. It'd be one thing if you could find a state where 95% of the residents agree on the same thing, but you can't. Dividing up the US would only weaken us militarily and economically. We're in enough trouble with China and with problems along the Mexican border as it is.

One of the very very few issues I agree with Rick Perry on is secession - he's never believed in it and would never support it, and neither would I.

[lentulusgracchus]

On it's current course toward fiscal/social collapse, preemption by secession might not be a bad idea and a more peaceful solution.

I've argued a couple of times for a constitutional convention to kick the six New England "blue"(actually very pink) States and the downstate part of New York State out of the Union.

That would expel about 30,000,000 Democrat votes and allow us to get our house back in order by getting the illegals to go home, sealing up the borders, and rolling back Marxism-Leninism out of our institutions. We'd need to introduce the Roman censorate, to expel disgusting or disruptive people from federal office and public life, and the Athenian ostracon (ostracism) to exile people from the community and physically expel them from the country.