So the future is _so_ uncertain that trying to avoid catastrophe is as futile as waiting for unicorns to save us. But also you're completely certain that the United States will continue with its exact same borders until it ceases to exist?
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Secession wouldn't avoid a catastrophe, it would cause one. And in fact would be one.
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Why do you think that? (honest q; history of broken up large countries is mixed rather than disastrous...).
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The US did OK after seceding from the British Empire IIRC.
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Yeah because it was a big contiguous landmass seceding from an island that was an ocean away.
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Ukraine/Kazakhistan/Uzbekistan, etc... 1918: Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Yugo.. Czech, Slovakia
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All irrelevant to the current situation!
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Replying to @Noahpinion @PsychRabble and
...which of course you already know full well, having participated in this stupid discussion for many minutes on end now. You're too smart to do the "cycle back to old refuted arguments" thing for any purpose other than trolling. ;-)
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They're not trolling. They just don't want to accept your points because it kills their fantasy of a secession in America.
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I don't necessarily _want_ a secession. I just don't think we need to catastrophize about it. Borders change. Countries redefine themselves. People and civilizations go on.
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It's just that in our current situation, our big geographical divide isn't regional; it's urban/rural. America's blue cities need its red countryside to be economically viable, and vice versa.
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