[Cheburashka]

Freepers crack me up. I love hearing how if FedGov™ was dissolved or seceded from there would be anarchy. This is a REPUBLIC and I would argue every state would be much better off as an independent country. After about 20 years maybe some alliances could be formed and maybe the whole thing reconstructed, but reconstructed the right way not the way it was done last time.

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Nature abhors a vacuum. After the U.S. is dissolved into its constituent states (and who is to say that the states won't start subdividing themselves once the process gets going?) the New Masters of the World in Beijing will no doubt use bribes, threats, subversion, military force, etc. to set the shattered remnants against each other for the greater good of the Chinese State.

It's unity that makes the U.S. strong. Once the unity is destroyed expect the post-U.S. to matter as much as, say, South America.

[central_va]

the New Masters of the World in Beijing will no doubt use bribes, threats, subversion, military force, etc. to set the shattered remnants against each other for the greater good of the Chinese State

BS. Right now I the primacy of the Federal Govt. is causing weakness, the accent of the individual state would reverse the enervating effects of tyrannical centralized power.

[Little Ray]

There are times when I think we should encourage the PRC to assume the role of the world “super power.” We could take a rest, and watch as China bankrupted itself through expansion and over-extension of its military.

Failing that, we might learn how to make a being a super power profitable, when its our turn again...