A state is a monopoly on violence. Our states do not have monoploies on violence.
Our cities do. You know how the police have over the years been turned into occupying armies? This has been accounted for.
So it would become rome. A collection of losely affiliated city states. With petty squabbles and trade deals.
Where it gets intresting is in the bandit country. Out in rural places where there is no monopoly of violence it will fall down to clan structure. Which isn't far off from what we have in tbe Philippines from what I understand. So in rural places you will see a stepp like churn of groups trying to come to power and then being displaced.
I think mexico is way more self sufficent than us and will probably take a good chunk of their land back.
Most places would need to lose a lot of population. The west and the south where we grow food could do okay. But new york is completely unsustsinable. So I can't even being to happen how the east will pan out.
I don't see the army being a big factor as its heavy industry has been distrubted across the states for pork reasons. So good luck keeping cohesion when half the soldiers family are dying and there are no more specially made fancy tires for the trucks.
this is close to my thinking, except the city police paramilitaries are all right-wing extremists. the liberals have no one guarding the gate. they think guns and violence are too icky, but not even 1/6 or the kidnapping plot against Gretchen Whitmer has caused them to consider cleaning out their police forces of fash and, i dunno maybe arming and deputizing a bunch of communists or anfita. clearly, it's not ideal for them to keep servicing capital, but at least commies aren't in a frenzy fantasizing about putting them against the wall the way the fascists are.
Maybe. I think when the time comes the cops won't bother with the pretense of ideology and just go full warlord. Might just be the cops I know in my area though.
Like, I knew the guy that sold my city's swat tream their steroids. When the time comes those guys will be no different than they are now.
A state is a monopoly on violence. Our states do not have monoploies on violence.
Our cities do. You know how the police have over the years been turned into occupying armies? This has been accounted for.
So it would become rome. A collection of losely affiliated city states. With petty squabbles and trade deals.
Where it gets intresting is in the bandit country. Out in rural places where there is no monopoly of violence it will fall down to clan structure. Which isn't far off from what we have in tbe Philippines from what I understand. So in rural places you will see a stepp like churn of groups trying to come to power and then being displaced.
I think mexico is way more self sufficent than us and will probably take a good chunk of their land back.
Most places would need to lose a lot of population. The west and the south where we grow food could do okay. But new york is completely unsustsinable. So I can't even being to happen how the east will pan out.
I don't see the army being a big factor as its heavy industry has been distrubted across the states for pork reasons. So good luck keeping cohesion when half the soldiers family are dying and there are no more specially made fancy tires for the trucks.
I wonder about hawaii and what they will do.
this is close to my thinking, except the city police paramilitaries are all right-wing extremists. the liberals have no one guarding the gate. they think guns and violence are too icky, but not even 1/6 or the kidnapping plot against Gretchen Whitmer has caused them to consider cleaning out their police forces of fash and, i dunno maybe arming and deputizing a bunch of communists or anfita. clearly, it's not ideal for them to keep servicing capital, but at least commies aren't in a frenzy fantasizing about putting them against the wall the way the fascists are.
Maybe. I think when the time comes the cops won't bother with the pretense of ideology and just go full warlord. Might just be the cops I know in my area though.
Like, I knew the guy that sold my city's swat tream their steroids. When the time comes those guys will be no different than they are now.
I also wonder what the Hawaiians will do to Zuckerberg's compound on Kauai.
:freedom-hater:
I visisted the island once. Saw some meth country. They gonna do alright