r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/pagerussell Washington 1d ago

If America broke up there would be a huge sorting out. Conservatives would move to red areas and liberals to blue areas. Not everyone, of course, but there would be massive migrations. Millions of people moving this way and that.

Which on the net of it would be very bad for red states. Most educated people are liberal. Red states would be witnessing a massive brain drain that would ensure a slow death spiral into a third world country.

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u/BatManatee 1d ago edited 1d ago

It would take less than 20 years for "Jesusland" to attack the "United Coasts of America".

When Red states stopped having Blue state money to prop them up, social programs would fail quickly. Texas and Florida aren't enough to carry the albatross of the South and Midwest economically. With no farm subsidies, social security collapsing, roads falling into disrepair, brain drain killing their hospitals, and gutting veterans' services, things would fall apart in no time.

Rather than introspection and improving themselves, they'd say the Blue states are responsible by coming up with some imagined slight just like they've been doing to Canada. And pretty soon we'd have Civil War 2.

Balkanization is starting to feel inevitable, but it won't be pretty either.

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u/BikingThroughCanada 1d ago

> It would take less than 20 years for "Jesusland" to attack the "United Coasts of America".

Yeah, not in a world where nukes exist.

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u/staunch_character 1d ago

The problem with Christians running things is too many of them WANT to see the world destroyed.

They don’t care about the planet or the environment. They’re just waiting for the Rapture.