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if your a liberal, you built this system and its maintenance is in your best interest if your a conservative, i suggest you think about chestertons fence for three seconds if your a leftist, you might consider your terminal values and try a consequentialist mode for a moment
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probably everyone in the US would be better off if more policy were determined at the state and local level, and i see a trend in that direction regardless what is an extremely bad idea is dramatically and erratically destroying us capacity to maintain the international system
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the united states is not just about the united states anymore and while in some ways this is bad for people in the united states (I think it is a net good) pretending this is not true and kicking out the stops is insane and puerile that is all
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this the most Hobbesian tweet you've ever made lol
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idk, i'm not 100% sold on the idea that the only alternative framework to post WWII Pax Americana ->dissolution of world order. there would likely be more conflict sure but not necessarily w. us. there would still be an order, just a more fractious one.
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that said, i think idea of Cali succession is cute, but never gonna happan if anything i'd imagine the scenario worked the other way around: where NY and CA try engineering a popular coup of the fed gov. e.g. constant moaning re: how the senate is an obstacle to true democracy
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