Should the United States Federal government be dissolved?

[Der Befreier]

As I said, it needs to be remedied ASAP.

That's honestly wishful thinking. This will continue to be an issue for decades to come.

I’m not so sure. I don’t live in America myself, and I’m aware that the media as a whole overhypes things, but from what I’m seeing tensions in the US are at a boiling point. As in “the lid is rattling around on the pot”.

[Torisakia]

That's honestly wishful thinking. This will continue to be an issue for decades to come.

I’m not so sure. I don’t live in America myself, and I’m aware that the media as a whole overhypes things, but from what I’m seeing tensions in the US are at a boiling point. As in “the lid is rattling around on the pot”.

It was that way a little over 160 years ago. But all of that is a discussion for a different thread I assume.

[Pope Saint Peter the Apostle]

I’m not so sure. I don’t live in America myself, and I’m aware that the media as a whole overhypes things, but from what I’m seeing tensions in the US are at a boiling point. As in “the lid is rattling around on the pot”.

It was that way a little over 160 years ago. But all of that is a discussion for a different thread I assume.

I mean 155 years ago slavery was abolished in the US, so it seemed to have worked then.

[Adamede]

Honestly, America is the best possible name for the Union for a lot of reasons.

Britain 2.0

Greater Britain.

[Atheris]

Britain 2.0

Greater Britain.

YO, WHAT THE FUCK DID WE DO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

[Adamede]

I would have said yes five months ago, but no, the government is needed for some very basic things like defense and security. Taxation can fuck right off, though

How is it going to provide defense and security without taxes?

That's honestly wishful thinking. This will continue to be an issue for decades to come.

I’m not so sure. I don’t live in America myself, and I’m aware that the media as a whole overhypes things, but from what I’m seeing tensions in the US are at a boiling point. As in “the lid is rattling around on the pot”.

Call me when congressmen are killing each other on the debate floor.

[American Pere Housh]

Fuck no

[Der Befreier]

Call me when congressmen are killing each other on the debate floor.

[Adamede]

Call me when congressmen are killing each other on the debate floor.

My bad, the killing didn’t happen in a Congress itself.

https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1800-1850/A-fatal-duel-between-Members-in-1838/

https://www.history.com/news/charles-sumner-caning-cilley-duel-congressional-violence

As divided as Americans may (appear) to be now, this is nothing to divide that slavery created in the nation.

[Atheris]

Call me when congressmen are killing each other on the debate floor.

Congressman-on-Congressman attempted murder was quite popular in the years leading up to the Civil War.

[The Reformed American Republic]

Congressman-on-Congressman attempted murder was quite popular in the years leading up to the Civil War.

It many become common again in the coming years.

[Der Befreier]

Congressman-on-Congressman attempted murder was quite popular in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Ah yes.

True. You don’t have that in the US at current. However, the armed militias, radical activists groups from spectrum to spectrum, and the riots aren’t exactly signs of coming peace either.

[Adamede]

Congressman-on-Congressman attempted murder was quite popular in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Ah yes.

True. You don’t have that in the US at current. However, the armed militias, radical activists groups from spectrum to spectrum, and the riots aren’t exactly signs of coming peace either.

That’s most of US history.

[The Three Palins]

Great idea. Fifty random shaped countries with vastly different resources. Like Africa!

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

Ah yes.

True. You don’t have that in the US at current. However, the armed militias, radical activists groups from spectrum to spectrum, and the riots aren’t exactly signs of coming peace either.

That’s most of US history.

No...wait...wait...wait...wait...wait...wait......wait........yes.

[FutureAmerica]

If it was dissolved, a civil war will breakout that will evolve into WWIII.

[Imperial Rifta]

If it was dissolved, a civil war will breakout that will evolve into WWIII.

Agreed

[Irish-Scottish America]

it would be pretty interesting to see if my state of Missouri seceded from the US to become the confederacy again

[Postauthoritarian America]

Come and take it.

[Kungsu]

The only way I would want the Federal government to be dissolved is if it was being reformed into a Parliamentary system. Presidential systems are just awful, and almost always (if not always) leads to corrupt regimes and a loss of democracy. Plus it puts more public focus on the actual Legislators, rather than having an eye single to the Presidency, making local government more effective as well.

This is as far as I understand it, of course. I do not have actual experience with such systems and may be wrong or misguided.

[Nazeroth]

The Federal government should be increased at it's current pace, states rights should be abolished and a centralized government established in DC to crush dissent, Puerto rico and other territories need to be directly absorbed into the "union".

The Democrats need to expand the court as well since they now have control.

also vastly more power needs to be given to the FBI to investigate domestic terror.

[United Latin American States]

WTF is this, No it should not.

[Nazeroth]

WTF is this, No it should not.

if anything it needs to be massivly expanded to deal with all threats foreign or domestic

[United Latin American States]

The Federal government should be increased at it's current pace, states rights should be abolished and a centralized government established in DC to crush dissent, Puerto rico and other territories need to be directly absorbed into the "union".

The Democrats need to expand the court as well since they now have control.

also vastly more power needs to be given to the FBI to investigate domestic terror.

I see you get the bigger picture, the Federal Government is not given enough power, it needs to truly become a Leviathan of a government.

[United Latin American States]

WTF is this, No it should not.

if anything it needs to be massivly expanded to deal with all threats foreign or domestic

sorry, I was responding to the original question, not you. look at my new response