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I am still very clear on the idea that if America collapses that is Very Bad for everybody. Civil War, also Very Bad for everybody. But idk, America half-functioning might limit our harm globally. OTOH, I guess a dysfunctional government leaves corporations to run amok worldwide.

Still, America is very fixable. The next stable state for America is a diverse ruling class that adopts a “anybody/everybody” ethic (“Here for anybody who’s here for everybody”), while allowing the “me and mines” ethic to flourish among the masses with fine-grain local control.

At present, America can’t deal with the “me and mines” sentiment that says I care about what happens to me and mines, and I want my world to conform to the values of my group/tribe/society.

This impulse is masked on the left by the need for coalition politics, but it is felt as sincerely on the left as on the right.

The issue is that on the right, the “me and mines” group is relatively homogenous and therefore acts as a unit (that unit being, essentially, the Republican Party).

The solution, then, is to compromise by finding ways to let people live in communities that reflect their social, spiritual, ethical, and aesthetic preferences in exchange for giving up political and social power.

This, of course, does nothing to address the dominance of the poor by the rich (although it would hopefully pave the way to create class proportionality across identity categories), nor to address America’s militarism and malignancy across the globe.

But it does solve the primary social contradiction that generates most of the energy in American politics at present.