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Originally Posted by Oklazona Bound
Don't overthink it. People can move if they don't like the politics of their new country. We are not going to have countries split up in 500 pieces.
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The territory counts for nothing. Only the people in it count.
The fact is the states with big populations need the goods the states with small populations provide, and vice versa. Our nation is totally interdependent now, and has been for a long time.
Take one half away, and both will collapse. Take 1/2 of each half away, and it will still collapse, albeit more slowly. No state is able to survive with 25% of its economy gone.
If it was possible to separate the people into like-minded groups that stayed in place and didn't have to leave their familiar territory to be in their group, the rural-urban balance might be maintained enough to keep a group from collapsing.
It would demand a very heavy mental change, though.
I think it would be easier to break up the 2 main political parties into a couple of dozen micro-parties and manage the federal government through coalition instead.
That would make our republic more like a parliament than what it is now, but that would be a lot easier and less problematic to accomplish than self-sorting by territory.
That would demand The Northwest Trumpettes to agree with some of the Southeast Trumpettes' conflicting agenda, and the Trumpettes would have to get along with the Palinites and the Pencers, and they would all have to get along with the Mountain Bundyites, and be ready to welcome the N. Dallas Cruzers, but that's the way coalitions always work.
Who wins the most votes gets to lead the coalition. It becomes party over person.
Neither are so permanently fixed in place that they can't be changed and don't need to be eternal in a good parliamentary system.
But all of this depends entirely on the belief that what counts are Trump's ideas, not the man himself. If everyone believes only Trump can conceive his ideas and only he has the ability to see them through, i then nothing above would work.
Trump would have to be re-elected to his former office for one more term, and then live on as President Emeritus of the Trump Party long enough to establish his successor.
Kind of like how Liberty University works. or Cuba.