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[deleted] OP t1_j8750ro wrote

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Actaeus86 t1_j875v7k wrote

I also favor splitting this country up. Liberals can have their own country, conservatives can have theirs. Everyone will be happy.

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ScumCrew t1_j87atux wrote

Except for all the people trapped in fascist America. Or were you imagining an American version of the Partition? How did that work out for India and Pakistan?

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Actaeus86 t1_j87b5bl wrote

Lol well since the British wouldn’t be drawing the borders in America I imagine it would go much better than Pakistan/India. You realize that there are far more states that vote Republican right? I highly doubt that the majority of those people would consider a conservative government “fascist”. Same as not everyone in a liberal country would consider their state socialist or whatever -ist fits best.

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ScumCrew t1_j87bzy3 wrote

You...know not everyone living in Red States is a Republican, right? What happens to them? If they are black, women, gay or trans, we just abandon them to a brand new country that openly despises them? Sounds like an awesome solution!

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Actaeus86 t1_j87cv7e wrote

Lol I mean I’m just assuming that everyone would move where they wanted. You know X group might not want to live in future Republic of Texas so they move to Republic of Illinois, or Y group leaves The Pennsylvania Commonwealth to go live in The commonwealth of South Carolina. No idea how any of it would work in a random future. Hell there might be 50 independent countries, or 5. My point is that splitting up America would solve a whole lot of issues.

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ScumCrew t1_j87dnuk wrote

Sure, yeah, millions of people abandoning everything and moving hundreds of miles away. What could go wrong?

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Actaeus86 t1_j87em7a wrote

All sorts of things. I would assume that the states would all welcome new arrivals to replace people leaving, but I have no idea. It would be crazy for sure. Or we could just keep going the way we are and have a civil war that would just have the same results with more deaths.

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[deleted] OP t1_j87634i wrote

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Actaeus86 t1_j8768fg wrote

Better get ready for the meta verse in that case. Can you honestly see the kind of vast political change that would need to happen to make any of this possible

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[deleted] OP t1_j876cnx wrote

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Actaeus86 t1_j876qmx wrote

I would just like to live in a country that actually functions and where my values are represented. That won’t happen until this country gets split up. Neither side will ever have a super majority of all 3 branches to just push their agenda through

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[deleted] OP t1_j876w22 wrote

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Actaeus86 t1_j8772nc wrote

I think that our founders had no idea how much the world would change. I can’t say it’s their fault, who would have thought 13 colonies would become the worlds biggest super power in less than 200 years? Not to mention how much society has changed.

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