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It is likely to happen through secession sooner or later. Our divided and disunited nation cannot continue on like this. National divorce is in our future, I doubt it will be done peacefully by a vote in congress or at the ballot box. Dark times may be near.
Let's say Congress by tonight does a treaty to split the country into 2 nation-states. Should we accept it or would you protest?
Can't be done with a "treaty." The only constitutional way for a state to leave the union would be to pass a constitutional amendment and have 3/4ths of the 49 other states to vote to let that state leave. Isn't going to happen.
Can't be done with a "treaty." The only constitutional way for a state to leave the union would be to pass a constitutional amendment and have 3/4ths of the 49 other states to vote to let that state leave. Isn't going to happen.
Unless that state was California, that state the other 49 might let leave.
There is a shrinking minority of Trump supporters in some so-called "red" states who might be such fools as to think that separating our nation into two, would be a good move. But that's all the backing that idea has. If they ever tried to actually take any action in that direction, they would discover how small a minority they really are.
We're going to have enough trouble as it is, to maintain our place in the world. Fragmenting this country would bring us to a state of ruin and our opponents would seize the opportunity, to capitalize on our folly. As it is clear to the sensible members of our society, this radical faction is on the way down and out. A few of its more vocal members are making futile threats like this, apparently with no more effect, than to delude themselves.
It's impossible because we don't really have "red states" and "blue states". Almost all major cities are blue. Almost all outer suburbs, countryside and small towns are red. It's a "fractal" division. My state, Ohio, is red-ish... but of its three biggest cities, one is deep-blue, one is moderate-blue, and one is purple. The countryside and the smaller towns are hard-red. Even in California, the inland areas and the countryside are red. Another example is Maryland: overwhelmingly blue along the I-95 corridor, but deep red in its Appalachian part.
Imagine a box with a dozen eggs. Instead of splitting the box in half, with 6 eggs blue and 6 red, we'd end up having to break all of the eggs, extract the yolks, place all of the yolks into "blue", and all of the whites into "red". What would that do to the eggs?
Let's say Congress by tonight does a treaty to split the country into 2 nation-states
Should we accept it or would you protest?
What it will be called?
“Divided States of America” ?
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