Yeah but they also need the federal gov to tax the blue states and keep the red states above water. So they can't just impose a jeffersonian model they need to form a power bloc over democratic states.
Nah. They're not that smart. They'll use dems respect for institutions to increase the tax birden on blue states. The trick is to stop the dems losing faith in federal institutions even when they're about as useful as the Roman Senate in 600ad
Balkanization will come from blue states trying to not get fucked by this stuff and trying to get away with running themselves more like, well, full-blown states. Red states will press the nationalism button to try reigning them in, driven by a risk to the national economic base to which they cater.
But conditions will need to deteriorate a lot more for that to happen.
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This is part of the balkanisation, you're 3 decades into it.
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Yeah but they also need the federal gov to tax the blue states and keep the red states above water. So they can't just impose a jeffersonian model they need to form a power bloc over democratic states.
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Nah. They're not that smart. They'll use dems respect for institutions to increase the tax birden on blue states. The trick is to stop the dems losing faith in federal institutions even when they're about as useful as the Roman Senate in 600ad
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Balkanization will come from blue states trying to not get fucked by this stuff and trying to get away with running themselves more like, well, full-blown states. Red states will press the nationalism button to try reigning them in, driven by a risk to the national economic base to which they cater.
But conditions will need to deteriorate a lot more for that to happen.
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Why would Texas balkanise? This move helps to lock in GOP control of the presidency. You don’t need to flee the federation if you can control it.