Do you think it's time for a break up in the United States?

[Dargil]

Do you think left and right wingers should separate from each other and form independent federations? It would not be groups of states, just regions that subscribe to right or left wing ideologies. If Democrats win the midterms or the presidential election of 2028, it will certainly be time for that. Even if it takes some guns and ammunition, I think it may be time. What do you think?

We should break up.

We should not break up.

Something else.

A total of 17 votes were cast: 3 girls and 14 guys. See detailed results

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10 mo

Hey. This is FUN!

[sawno]

I'm a nationalist so I think having more state sovereignty is a good idea. But do keep in mind that currently you are the largest military super power and for the most part that's a good thing considering who the other major player is. So I do think it could work if done well and would lead to a desirable outcome, but I don't think its the most desirable outcome you can go for.

Instead I think its better to reduce the power that the federal government has over the states. And then let those states organize themselves how their citizens see fit. Ideally with a more direct form of democracy and definitely not with something so shit as a two party system. If you do that the states will automatically organize themselves in ways that work for them, with some being more left wing and some being more right wing. People then move to the state that fits them.

So to me the main reason you even feel like breaking up is because two radically different world views in our generation are forced to share a federation of nations (which is really what the united states is to me), it makes more sense to make those decisions on a smaller scale so they can self organize.

[Dargil]

Good opinion and good to hear from you.

[msc545]

I think we should break up. Let's have all the right-wingers take all the shitty flyover states, and we can take California, Oregon, Washington, and some of the nicer places in this country. You know, the ones that the right-wingers don't appreciate and are constantly making nasty comments about. For instance, they can have places like Texas and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and all that garbage. We get the good places.

Seriously though, the best thing about breaking up is we don't have to get into a war with these people, and that's the real potential problem here. Each day when I wake up and I find that Trump has just done something even more provocative and crazy, I feel like it's getting closer and I don't want this to happen.

We are like a married couple whose marriage has dissolved, but they're still living in the same house and fighting like cats and dogs. It's time for us both to leave the house and go our own ways. Our democratic experiment of 250 some odd years has failed. It is time we faced that and dealt with the aftermath.

[Dargil]

I think we will oblige you within the next 10 years. As a unified country, this is our last rodeo.

[msc545]

I'm glad to hear that, and I'm looking forward to it. As I said in my last post, we don't want a war with you, and I don't think you want one with us. As separate countries, I think both of us will do better.

[NathanDavis]

if anything... I think all of the extremists on both sides should get their own island or their own state

the Far-right... vs Far-left

the rest of the people who have been able to get along regardless of political association should remain in the United States

[exitseven]

yes democrats want to destroy the country. Let them have half the country, let them open their borders to anyone , give free bus rides, have no private property, and free supermarkets. Raise taxes on the semi wealthy and have free supermarkets. then we build a wall to keep them all out when it goes sideways.

[exitseven]

www.youtube.com/watch

[DryGermanGuy]

How the heck would this even work? The red states would be bankrupt inside one year without the taxes that California, New York, Massachusetts... bring into the system!

[Dargil]

So you might think. But with the Exodus of businesses from California Massachusetts and New York coming into places like Texas Tennessee and Florida we would not go bankrupt at all. You would.

[DryGermanGuy]

If those businesses haven’t moved by now, why should they move after such an (completely unrealistic) split? Who would expect to find the same number and qualifications of IT-engineers in Tennessee?

[Dargil]

As you wish.

[Alexandrubaschet08]

Only pro russians and people with no brain voted "yes". The only countrys that MUST BRAKE are RUSSIA in the first line then China and N. Korea!

[Telekinetic-Potato]

This is why we need to limit who can vote. Like are you totally insane?

That would literally cause a multi decade world war. Including a civil war. And an everything crisis.

[Dargil]

1. Who would you prevent from voting? How would you accomplish that?
2. If the people agreed to a split, there would be no civil war. Czechoslovakia I did a successfully.
3. If we made the split, we could still be allies and join together like NATO if we had to fight a world war.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

1. That is gonna take a long conversation but I think for starters people with no job who don't own any land or take part in the military is a good place to begin the discussion.

2 and 3. Dude, do you really not see the difference between America who essentially IS NATO and a tiny country? You do realize America was there right? The people never voted. It was two politicians, USAID, and a bunch of "experts" sent there by us.

It's completely dishonest and in bad faith to compare too a giant farm splitting in two to the country that runs the world after stopping the most powerful ones from taking over all of Europe and deciding not to do the same when it would have been a trivial task is nuts.

The reason there'd be a world war is because there'd be no incentive for smaller countries not to be invaded by larger ones. America created a system where everyone's financial well being is tied together in such a way that it's within most people's best interest not to start wars.

Think about all the fighting we did to make our currency powerful. We didn't invent that lol. That's been a thing since before money.

People want to see this country fail so bad ND they have no idea that the reason they have clean water, a house that isn't made of asbestos, electricity that runs smoothly enough for your $1500 pc to run reliably for 10 years, fruit, drinks and pastries from all over the world available no further than 4 miles apart. If you can prove the police mistreated you, you get money, if you prove the government mistreated you, you get money, if your poor, you still go to school and can go to the hospital.

This is the most privledged generation, actually fuck that. A majority of the people living in this country are living as individuals, with more privledged than arguably anyone in the world has lived with in 99.9999% of history.

People need to be very careful about this.

[FunkyMonkee]

I think the lefties that hate America should all be shipped to the northernmost portion of Greenland!! Put all the deportees there, too so the lefties can share their new houses with them.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Yes. Let the brainy folk have their nation and the MAGA morons theirs, and before 2035, the Red Nation will implode from ignorance, fugliness and bigotry !!!

[Dargil]

Help me out here. Who, exactly, are the brainy folk? Democrats? You have got to be kidding me.

[beefcakebradybatson]

The dumbest Dem is FAR smarter than 90% of REPIGS !!!

[Dargil]

Stand by and watch beefsteak.

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah. But I wanna have two separate USA's, like we had during the civil war. The borders might be a little funky, but that's okay.

[Ariesman81]

I wouldn't get too worked up yet. It's a very very very minor fringe that condones what the protesters are doing. They're just on their period.

[Anonymous]

We have the communist enforcement act. Just deport them to the commie shitholes they claim to love so much.

[Anonymous]

It’s the only answer there is.

[unending]

America will grow, not divide.

[888theGreat]

Yes the land Trump or MAGA land