• Nakoichi [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    2030 Balkanization here we come. You can quote me on this, I don't see how the US lasts another decade at this rate.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think American balkanisation will look less like Yugoslavia and more like the Holy Roman Empire. It will not be a sudden rupture but the gradual realisation among states that they can do as they please.

      There will still be an emperor, a president, in Washington and some idea of belonging to the same nation but the central government will be powerless to either help states or to force them to follow orders and the president's role will be that of a mediator between essentially independent states, not that of leader of a unified nation. To make up for the lack of a working central government states will ally with eachother in a complex patchwork of alliances and treaties.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Damn that's the most realistic take on balkanization I've yet seen

      • rubpoll [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        We're getting that megaregions map in everything but actual written law. No formal secession, no states seizing states through warfare; just the major local economies consolidating the smaller ones on their periphery as things like federal jurisdiction and state lines become effectively meaningless.

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        a mediator between essentially independent states, not that of leader of a unified nation

        It sounds more like the EU when you put it that way