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.
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.