re: This nation is headed for a Divorce

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They have no idea they've been completely duped by a Russian bot farm. It's insane.

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What's the proof it's a Russian bot farm?

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They have no idea they've been completely duped by a Russian bot farm.

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What's the proof it's a Russian bot farm?

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well, it's fairly well documented in the Mueller report if you read it. I'll assume most on here aren't interested.
Also, our intelligence agencies have consistently stated that it happened.

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Breaking this country up is the only way to save the parts of this country who oppose the evils of socialism. I welcome it.

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Seems so many are more than happy to give up our East and west coasts, and parts of the interior like MN, IL, WI maybe. But nobody wants to contemplate what happens when these places invite in their Chicom buddies, and tells them they can use them for a base, and keep any red territory they can take and hold.

No. The answer is you get nothing. You aren’t Americans. You don’t believe in this country, her people, her founding documents, principles, or founding fathers, and you don’t believe in capitalism. What you get is re-education, and re-programmed, or you get the honor of being the natural fertilizer to the tree of Liberty, per Thomas Jefferson’s declaration.

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well, it's fairly well documented in the Mueller report if you read it. I'll assume most on here aren't interested.
Also, our intelligence agencies have consistently stated that it happened.

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Stop drinking your bongwater.

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It could be become a proxy cold war with Russia support on the right and chinese support on the left.

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Russia would be fine enough if the US didn't have the ability to levy sanctions. The geopolitics are hard to predict, but there are numerous possible faultlines that no one is considering, as countries like Mexico, which would be larger than most potential neophyte states, has a vested interest in terms of people and border security (which is the convenient geopolitical excuse for lots of extra-territorial involvement) from Texas all the way to California. Who controls the nuclear arsenal, the financial system, and ports are all relevant questions.

People aren't thinking Balkanization through. It would be a disaster for everyone involved, and its effects would be unpredictable, and almost uniformly, utterly terrible.

Truth be told i have no idea how FICA and the USD could ever be unraveled in a divorce.

I dont think of it like a balkan construct. More or less regions just start ignoring the central government. Breaking the currency and FICA glue will be hard though.

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One wants a highly centralized state, that limits personal freedom. These people are messianic at heart. They want to transform human nature, an impossible task.

Then you have the other camp, which prizes personal liberty to a fault.

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This is it right here.

One side wants to continue “evolving”. This can apply to human nature (gender, race, etc.) or society in general (globalism, one nation state, etc.).

The other side wants to stay stagnant because there is nothing to “fix” or “evolve” because society has never been better off than it currently is in terms of lifespan, wealth, and freedom.

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I dont think of it like a balkan construct. More or less regions just start ignoring the central government. Breaking the currency and FICA glue will be hard though.

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You can have that with stronger Federalism. The solution is here already within the form of government. You don't need a break-up to achieve that. What you need is an honest conversation about geopolitics, which, due to the US's wealth, has insulated the average US citizen from success and consequences in the geopolitical realm. The trend has been set, and governments with the right balance of centralized states with decentralized arrangements are going to dominate the 21st century. China is a de-facto federal state in many ways, namely in that the regions are somewhat decentralized by virtue of the CCP's desire to find talented people to fill its executive class (which is how Xi rose to power). India is another federal state, where one of its states, Uttar Pradesh, would be the 7th largest country in the world on population alone. China and India are predicted to be the largest economies in the world by 2050, and without good governance, the US stands to lose a lot.

The federal system allows for some limited government, but technology and how governments have used it has encouraged more and more centralization. The US has to operate under the reality of every country in the world, especially if people insist on continuing the process of Balkanization.

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I see some of the most extreme, and obviously fake, stuff posted by a lot of my elderly friends and family members.

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I am not surprised you have stupid friends and family members.