Because the ruling class will still need to distract libs and chuds from material conditions. In fact it will probably be even more important in two unsustainable nations.
Because the ruling class will still need to distract libs and chuds from material conditions. In fact it will probably be even more important in two unsustainable nations.
people say they want this but it would destroy the nation and almost certainly lead to a reunification war but that's best for the rest of the world so I guess I support
Since the 17th century, America has been "balkanized" and locked in an existential crisis between 2 competing strains of British Capitalists - the Puritans and the Cavaliers. We trot out this split idea every few years, and it never goes anywhere because both groups would rather bicker and be a global power together than split up and become irrelevant.
indeed, damn Puritans
it would also immediately hand over the keys of global hegemony to China, which neither side would particularly care for
speak for yourself. :xi-reactionary-spotted:
i meant the dems and GOP
I would gladly welcome Xi as president of earth
I know. I was trying to make a joke but didn't say it well.
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Either side would make a move to retake the resources that were previously available to them in a single union. It just depends who the money runs our for first, so probably the red states but maybe the libs would want to retake the Texas oil or something.
I'm imagining a great khan uniting the tribes of the American Steppe and laying siege to the city states
I volunteer for the Great Comache Khanite
Would it? I feel like only Red State governors would be dumb enough to try it, lib blue state residents would be happy to be rid of republicans, and federal politicians would be counting a windfall of undistributed pork and welfare checks.
think about the economics of such a decision. If the USA literally split into two nations, Dem and republican, it would wreck havoc on the economies of country comparable only to the collapse of the USSR. These red states are already all broke except for like Texas and Florida, and soon they will be eyeing the resources that was left on the Democratic side of the new border. It is not like it would be politically infeasible to conquer and rule over more Americans even if they were libs, it's not like conquering a distant nation with people who don't even speak English. Why have half the country when you could have all of it? The country cannot be divided like that, it would become all of one thing or all of another.
And of the two groups being discussed here, we know that one side has more guns and a greater willingness to use them. So, this seems like a settled question; it's just a matter of if they get motivated to act and what specifically motivates them.
well I wouldn't be so quick to discount the liberals in this fantasy timeline. The libs do have the advantage in industry and technology and can draft more soldiers. It'd be like lib technocratic warfare vs chud holy warfare (fighting in the name of the Great Founding Fathers)
True. We're already in the midst of a cold civil war then.