"I'm amused at the suggestion that democracy is going to save us from democracy. At this point the only viable outcomes are a military coup, a somewhat-peaceful secession, or a bloody civil war." I'm inclined to agree--and to prefer the second option
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Coastline/sea too rough that far north? Maybe it'd be possible to build a port in less than a generation without California's current onerous development laws!
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Alaska isn’t connected to the lower 48, no reason Seattle needs to be connected to Cali-leftopia. Ask Seattleites, they’d probably even prefer to remain separate from their Californian Comrades. Bellingham’s crunchies also have a very low aptitude to qualify as deplorables.pic.twitter.com/pu8THee9fA
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Non-contiguity is a good point. An alternate way to think about this is what’s the minimum of blue you’d need to lop off to get a reasonably harmonious country. Miami and NYC could become city-states, maybe a coastal strip from Los Angeles to SF gets lopped off...
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Instead of spatial separation, what about possibility of virtual polities? Instead of cleansing and purifying territories, individuals could subject themselves to separate moral, legal, tax & civic authorities within the same space?
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Speculations are interesting but insinuate significant change in daily existence that need not occur Minimally, political dissolution is everything like it before except 1) no more federal taxes withheld, 2) no more benefits from said taxes being withheld (whatever those are)
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Sounds beautiful.
Medicare & Social Security devolve to the states.
Finally a whole lot less ability and appetite for foreign “Invade-the-World” adventures.
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Why not have free movement of people within the states? You wouldn't have to worry about attracting a criminal underclass if you control your own welfare spending: you simply don't subsidize it, and you use broken windows policing as further discouragement.
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I can’t imagine any acute unintended consequences of free mobility & settlement... even into the Nth iteration... especially if deportation / exclusion remains as a possible sanction for such “broken window policing.”
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Perhaps the worst that would happen would be exactly what places like AZ NV TX CO ID complain about, THAT all the Californian newcomers show up and vote progressive values that bring exactly the kind of problems they fled.
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Can’t imagine Leftopians would be very interested in holding on to the Kitsap nuclear sub base in Bremerton & Bangor just across the Sound from Seattle.
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