West Leas Oros 2 wrote:That I am fully aware of, but ultimately, I’m not looking for the better, rather, the best. If Americans wise up to the fact that if they continue down the current path, they’ll bring only disfunction or apocalypse, they’ll actually call for meaningful change. Ultimately, I’d rather take the chance that there is a benevolent post-American nation than the certainty that America as it exists now is a horrid place. I have more faith in a theoretical “Republic of Iowa” than I do the US government.Kiu Ghesik wrote:That's my worry. If the US just Balkanizes- a likely scenario in the next two hundred years- then we get dozens of states that hate each other, all of whom probably have nukes. It'll be Pakistan and India all over again, except times ten.
I don't know, I guess I just think that dysfunctional government is better than no government, because no government has historically most often led into brutal, oppressive government or brutal, oppressive citizens' law.
Yeah. I want my Texan Republic, man.
America would be so much cooler if it was a confederation rather than a blob.










