With Trump off the board now, barring some insane last minute victory, it looks like we face a President Harris timeline.
I shouldn't need to explain why that's the worst possible outcome, but I will anyway. She will use the power and resources of the United States to push the "future is female" agenda worldwide and crush their opponents both domestic and foreign.
Do we just lie low and hope to blend in? There's nowhere to go and nothing to stand behind.
Now we build the movement to call the Washington swamp illegitimate, and form a new government away from it.
Good luck with that. You'll be crushed faster than a little boy's hopes and dreams are by a female teacher.
Aye. It was always going to come to secession.
Just glad y'all are starting to realize it.
Oh great, then we'll get stuck with Texas and Idaho, just as both states tip blue, then we'll have to secede from them too. Or does Idaho secede from Boise then, and Texas from Austin? Why not just an infinite regress of secessions?
It's almost as if large nations don't work, and tiny decentralised nations with very local forms of government are by far the best option.
But but diversity is our strength
That's what America is supposed to be. The federal government was never supposed to have this much power, but power once gained is rarely given up.
How does that work? It's clear the Capitol lacks the political will to do it.
Well, it would look like this:
It would require having the duly elected government of a state declaring the federal government illegitimate and directing the agents and militia of that state to do the following:
After this initial burst of activity, things kinda go into a holding pattern as the rest of the country responds. It's a foregone conclusion that the first state to secede will see both flight out and flight in as people pick which side of the line they want to be on.
The question is, what does DC do?
This time, I do not think a military resolution will occur.
You see, in a civil conflict when the military is directed to respond, it is on the individual members of it to decide where their loyalties are.
I suspect very strongly that the military, being 2/3rds republican and overwhelmingly pro-MAGA, will quit en-masse and be among those who move.
There will not be enough people left in the US with the experience and will to fight for DC to make a military response, so instead we'll get a standoff and de facto secession which is eventually made de jure.
Is there any state likely to actually do this? Even the most red states tend to have blue capitals and centers of power.
34 states required to call it?
Impossible under current circumstances.
I think a legal separation might be the only way.
Separation? You want to have a China-allied neighbour on your borders? No, you can't have a "separation".
The options aren't "Have china-allied neighbor" and "have a free country."
The options are "Have another china-allied neighbor (Canada is already there)" and "Be ruled by chinese puppets."
Not sure about that. I think people could win against the enemy.