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Some heretical remarks from a distant observer

The UNITED States of America no longer exist. They only exist on the institutional level, but institutions need the political support of citizens to be fully functional. Without this mental background, institutions are dead, they become hollow shells (example: if you look just at the institutions, Russia is a democracy !) Trump's top-down coup failed not because of institutions, but because of the minds of dozens of judges who put law and due process above ideology or tribal affiliation.
The territory of the country formerly known as USA is populated by two cultural tribes locked in mutual hatred. Ideally, these two tribes should also inhabit two separate countries (maybe like Scotland and England after a referendum), but this is simply not feasible. The two tribes have to share the same big space between Canada and Mexico, even if there is no cultural and political common ground between them.
Given that the ideal solution (two different countries) is impossible, what about a pragmatic solution: to partially dismantle the institutional framework of the former USA. Here in Europa, the EU has the guiding principle of becoming an ever closer Union (hint: it does not work). The USA could go in the opposite direction of an ever looser union.

That would mean that all those highly controversial issues the two tribes cannot agree upon (i.e. abortion, gun control, drugs, education, minority rights etc...) would be dealt with on the level of the member states. Sure, in some states, where the two tribes are almost even, the cultural war would go on, but the majority of states are either solidly blue or red.
That is exactly what will happen with abortion now that Roe v Wade has been overturned. The issue will be decided by the states.
But frankly, would that be such a bad thing? People would decide locally how they want to live instead of one big One-size-fits-all which will always be contested by one of the two tribes? One could say that the result would be a mere patchwork, but isn't a patchwork better than a constant cultural war?

#guncontrol #ideology #abortion #cultural #Canada #rights #drugs #USA

Matias66 6

Answer 1

I think USians are more united structurally than divided. There are some residual liberal and nationalistic attitudes, but ultimately they are mostly all Western chauvinist, anti-government, globalist settlers interested in the tech economy.

Answer 2

You should not believe what the media tells you so much.

The Constitution only lives in its defense by the people. The only people who pledge its defense in their platform are Republicans, the party Lincoln founded explicitly for that purpose, as no such party existed at the time; only the Democrat Party, which has only re-branded multiple times since then and blamed Republicans for what they do, but never changed.

As long as the Republican Party exists, so does the Constitution and the United States of America. When the Republican Party ceases to exist, there will be nothing to stop the Democrat Party from plundering the nation for wealth and power once again, until it is weak and ripe for carving up by other more powerful nations.

Answer 3

This is an idea worth exploring.
The current alternative is civil war. And this alternative is becoming more and more likely.


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