Well, central planning would kind of defeat the purpose.
Edit: You can use a search engine to find the ways many different people have guessed the U.S. would be divided up along cultural lines.
I make no apologies my brother. I want nothing to do with extremist rejects on either end.
Not with *some people. Like finding common ground with a scorpion. They’re diametrically opposed to my values by their nature.
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When we split, can we actually split up 3 ways? I dislike liberals the most, at least in their current illiberal state. But right behind them is the republicans… not a huge fan of them either. I like conservatives, but only the ones who are sensible enough to not let us be run by Amazon or Google, so no Laissez-Faire conservatives either.
Also, I’m a patriots fan and refuse to find common ground with Jets or Eagles fans, so i don’t want them to be part of us either. And no Ford truck owners too.
I would hope so. The country started as 13 countries, back when it was a lot smaller(in both area and population).
What is there to be understood.
Current narative is project veritas are fake and they were raided by FBI pretty “constitutionally”.
Currently Trump and his supporters with few right groups are hunted down via the Jan 6th commite. Also using the constitution and congress.
So there are constitutional ways to get rid of fake media, social media influence, BLM, antifa and Jan 6th comette for example. They are shown by the current leading party.
“To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”
– Charles Krauthammer
Solve this divide and a united country is possible.
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Right. For 75 years, American society has been mired in ever-increasing delusion, pathology, corruption, social instability, violence, and so on.
Several friends and I consider American society terminally ill. That is, unfixable, although we can putter along in a dysfunctional manner for a long time.
I don’t have a problem with territorial fragmentation/Balkanization as a concept in itself. But I do know that it would likely entail enormous discomfort to get it done.
I see no valid reason for forcing mutually oppositional people together, no idea! I don’t like other people’s ways and what they condone (which inherently involves moral support) or promote, and vice versa! And that goes for people I might even consider likable. But I don’t want them imposing their will on me and vice versa. To wit: “leave me the hell alone!”
Forcing us together simply results in permanent strife, grieving, and putting upon.
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@marine77 @NickViar if only there were some other way of keeping the states together but where they all have their own government. One that is stronger than the federal government perhaps. Maybe we could call it a “confederation” of states or something, you know - so we can all be on the same team, but not live in the same house.
Maybe the first civil war was about more than slavery after all 
It’s simply illegal.
I know. Compare our quality of life and the ability to protect it to some place like, I don’t know, Yemen, Haiti, the Congo or Ukraine.
That’s a lot like the con called the Constitution…I think Patrick Henry(the “Give me liberty, or give me death” guy, who refused to attend the Constitutional Convention) called it a “rat.”
The purpose can’t be keeping the States together. The purpose can only be improving things for States enough to keep them from separating. States have to be free to leave, and it’s the union/federal government that has to convince them otherwise.
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But not relevant as an academic. Relevant as a public intellectual maybe.
Exactly. His credentials as an academic are unknown to many who see him as a public intellectual. I knew of his academic work prior to ever learning of his politics.
Maybe I’m thinking of academic in a literal sense. And others think academic is just a way of saying fancy education.
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You knew about Chomsky’s academic work before you realized he was a high profile left wing activist? How old are you?
That must’ve been sometime in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s. Certainly pre-Vietnam war-era. I can’t imagine knowing about his academic work while being oblivious to his high profile activism any time before that. I guess maybe the 1970s if you never went to a library looking for a Chomsky book but somehow knew about his linguistic theory.
I always assumed you were older, but not pushing 80 years old.
Old enough to have known people who lived under the robber barons, if I recall correctly.
To me its the age old pendulum swing… At this period in our country’s history its the left that are insufferable cunts, that have become the new evangelical loons, and show no signs of slowing their lunacy. Bitter, unstable, hate filled, psychotic rejects of nature. This is their revenge.
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I’ve seen recently that one of your state’s got rid of minimum marriage age, is that true?
I don’t know. Some already have none. Others(Massachusetts) allow marriage at 12.
Perhaps.
I’d like to challenge anyone to tell me one valid reason to force mutually hostile groups to live with one another.
And then, considering the thread topic, show me one politician in the past 80 or so years who does not dangerously lie or is in tune with reality.
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That’s why I asked rather than making a comment, also your federal v state laws and how they interact isn’t always clear from articles.
Cheers for the response. Unless I’m missing something doesn’t that leave children vulnerable?