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We are the United States and I love my fellow Americans, the politicians need to go
Sigh We do not need American Civil War 2... Electric Boogaloo...
So, I'd think that this one would take a lot less time. I can't see that a lot of the US army would flip.
Not only that Southern States are not uniformly composed. A lot of Republican power in the south comes from gerrymandering the large populations. That whole political border thing is less a thing when a particular group of citizens have just been given the green light to raze the State Capitol.
Seceding states themselves would have massive civil unrest, there’s just zero ways the States themselves would be sustainable. Not to mention that if say Texas tried it, it’s likely drug cartels would join in the looting and destruction of the State. So that State would be fighting something like a four prong war, by itself.
Citizens are a lot more educated today, especially in the large cities. They would absolutely take any secession as permission to burn the whole thing down. And a lot of the seats of Government in these States are in their largest city. Whatever political majority that MTG think she has to support her calls is fiction supported by electioneering.
Why shouldn't they be allowed to secede? Let the inhabitants of each state vote under international supervision to make sure the vote goes by according to western standards. I see no reason why any community should be barred from seeking independence and self rule.
If Texas secedes from the US, does Houston get to secede from Texas?
You'd end up with a situation like Brexit, where Scotland voted to stay but had to leave with England, only the whole thing would be 100x worse because US states are far more integrated than EU member states.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In February, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a “national divorce” between red and blue states.
On Monday, Greene (R-Ga.) wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that “if the Biden admin refuses to stop the invasion of cartel led human and drug trafficking into our country, states should consider seceding from the union.”
“From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done,” Greene said at the time.
The measure would allow Texans to vote on “whether or not the State should investigate the possibility of Texas independence, and present potential plans to the Legislature.”
In 2022, failed Ohio congressional candidate J.R. Majewski called for states where a majority of voters had supported Trump to split from the country.
While Majewski failed to make it into elected office, Greene’s repeated calls for succession have not gone unnoticed by her colleagues in the House.
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Promises, promises.
If there's gonna be another civil war can we not give the traitors a free pass this time?
Here hoping
has already happened work has me cross state lines all the time insurance laws for vehicles including what insurance companies are allowed to be used and how, laws for what medical drugs you are allowed to use, laws on what doctors are able to do, and the list goes on for state by state laws and the federal laws mean nothing unless the state wants the law to mean something states are able try and keep people in the states that they are in with laws and restrictions that are effective such as low wages and piss poor education South Carolina has an extra tax on vehicles bought out of state such as upstate residents buy in nearby Charlotte, or Kings Mountain, or Gastonia North Carolina that is hundreds of dollars extra just a small example
This is the Disunited States of America and has been for a bit
Citizens are also helping to fuel this by not recognizing the rot around them
Been on fire and no warnings of possible fires will help when s##t is already burnt almost down
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