102 sats \ 3 replies \ @Eobard 29 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: What would have to happen for you to LEAVE your home country? earth
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This is the worst option. It doesn't have to be war and we should never call for it. Peaceful divorce should be the goal. If the feds attack so be it but war makes losers of us all.
I really don't think the world in general would support federal forces attacking other Americans over peaceful divorce. If the feds tried this I suspect it would not end well for everyone. In my view calling for civil war is playing into the feds hands. Its the way they stop the discussion.
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have a read of the Federalist Papers to get a sense of how tremendously disinterested they were in having anything other than a cohesive union on the continent.
can you imagine if California was suddenly divorced from the federal system, and simultaneously very pleased to outsource their policing and monetary policy to the Chinese ? next thing you know, they're letting the Chinese military build an air base and a naval base and a troop Baracks, and then suddenly poof... Nevada is Chinese territory.
my point is: civil war might be better than dissolution of the union.
best bet is, and I've come full circle on this as I've moved through the thinking on it, voting ourselves out of this bullshit & into a tolerable relationship with the other states.
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Civil War is useless if you don't have consensus how to build a better system. And if you would have consensus, you wouldn't really need "all-out civil war"
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