If people were sensible (which, of course, they're not), they'd flake off the hyper-urban cosmopolitan tech-comm micro-states first. ...
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... They're largely indifferent to territory, except as interchange hubs, so they'd sign up to highly-parsimonious geographical deals. ...
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... Once they're out of the political equation, the various American nations could get down to carving the place up at the joints. ...
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... Until the cosmopolitan interest is formally localized (or 'enclaved'), nothing else will happen because the fog is too thick. ...
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... Naturally, none of this is probable. Collapse, war, and clawing things back together from the ashes is by far the most likely route.
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Yes and it looks like we've already crossed the event horizon for something like that
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I bet most Joes would be OK with some sort of decentralization or re-organizing of the US into a loose confederacy, maybe not full secession
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But the people running this shit-show certainly don't want that
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They don't. Unfortunately they're very pernicious and difficult to kill. You'll probably be stuck waiting for them to loot us into collapse.
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Hopefully techno-decentralization/etc. turns out to be everything we want it to be, allowing some to escape the sinking slave ship.
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Cascade effects, eventually. SEK III counter-economics finally kicks in hard, and guts the regime.
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