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Let them. Didn't the Weather Underground only manage to kill its own operatives?
Their bungling of terror acts made them change tactics to the "long march through the institutions," which was a complete success. We are now left with the task of either abandoning or reforming our institutions and bureaucracies.
Abandonment and retrenchment in an alternate society seems the way to go. Secession seems certain.
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The irony is killing me. I remember when many of the heads of the 1960s were rejecting the dominant culture and fleeing the cities for some inchoate utopia, with no central plan or organization, just a bunch of ignorant tribes horrified by conditions looking to flee.
Same thing is happening today but secession by the right appears to be--at least at this stage--more well-thought-out and practical. There's a long-term strategy emerging for retrenchment into Libertarian enclaves, which makes organized secession a practical matter and not some vague pipe dream.
I agree and have been promulgating this idea for some time. The US is not the country it was 270, 150, or even 70 years ago. I would rather we do a soft balkanization where the Red States form a union that can negotiate with the Blue States contingent.
But I can also see the Blue States not liking that arrangement since Red States don't really need much from Blue States.
Waaaaait a minute, this is starting to sound awfully familiar to another civil war we had in this country....
I'm not sure that there's much need for negotiation. Red states are stronger because they suffer from far less rot than blue states. Blue states appear strong because they have large populations and wealth, but that wealth is mostly in investment funny money and not assets or infrastructure, and the populations are made up of mentally ill progressives and balkanized immigrants.
People will volunteer to risk their lives for the idea of Tennessee or Texas. Chicagolanders aren't going to volunteer to fight for the idea of Illinois.
As long as we're talking about fantasies, I'd rather we keep the whole country but split off the big cities into their own walled off protected zones or districts.
The special districts are operated by their parent state, which may decide who may enter and leave the district.
Federal regulation determines the borders of the districts based on a population density calculation.
They are treated like DC as far as getting no representation. They do not count towards their state's electoral college votes. Maybe each one gets one vote and one representative, but no senators. (they all vote Dem already so that won't change anything)
Every year we will hold an exciting nation-wide combat tournament with two players from each district participating, to remind the districts why they exist and what that they lost.
The more extreme the left gets leading up to formal secession, the more violent separation seems likely.
The Red States will suffer under the weight of a large portion of their population losing the welfare that a lot of them live under their entire life.
Now, will the Blue States with their empathy and pro-race stances suddenly take in the massive black populations when they get expelled for that welfare problem? Oh funny. Which leaves a pretty big problem that will not just disappear.
Welfare people will lose out, dummy. Good. Go away.
If by "suffer," you mean "benefit, as people who have long had very little incentive to find work, now do so," then I agree with you.
It's hard to get people to work, even harder when someone is giving them enough to get by. People who are just getting by on handouts also are largely idle, which gives them time for other things, like drugs and crime.
You think the Administrative Regime gives out welfare to people to benefit their communities? Whew, lad.