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SSG Observer   Controller/Trainer (Oc/T)
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1SG (Join to see) my thoughts,

1. Politics aside, splitting the country would leave the left leaning liberals and democrats regions subject to being preyed upon communist and or socialist nations trying to get a foothold in north america. I feel Russia would almost immediately jump farther than they currently are in the near Alaska and west coast area.

2. Can the economy really handle it? Some industries are heavy in certain parts of the nation, as such tech products, I feel, would be taxed heavier since California loves to tax the shit out of everything and everyone.

3. I think it would create even more hostilities between the border if the U.S. were to split as a big part of the difference in these potential countries would boil down to race, creed, sex, religion, and all those other protected groups.

Idk, I just don't see it working.
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I'm with you. I thought the ideas in the video were quite bizarre
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LCDR Joshua Gillespie
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Interesting topic.

There's one very important reason this will never happen-commerce. Social medial has radically changed our perception of reality. Thirty years ago, your opinion didn't get heard outside a very small circle unless you had power...real power, meaning money. Every news story, documentary film, sitcom and feature film was accompanied by commercials (remember those?). The people who bought those "slots" did so to promote a product. Each news agency, broadcasting company, producer, and even director had to factor that in to every message and image put on the screen or out in print. Compare that to today, where "Mrs. Smith, 4th Grade Teacher", or "Joe the College Freshman" has immediate, largely uncensored access to millions. Comparatively few "commentators" in the "blogosphere" or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram are thinking about Maxwell House coffee, or Ford Motor Company when they post. The net result is a society where our unfiltered opinions drown out the steady current of highly curated, purposeful information designed to keep people going to work, paying their taxes, and buying Crest toothpaste and Honda Civics.

Which do you think holds any sway over Congress or any state legislature? How would the nation divide under any pretext without these entities being a major part? How would "Mayor Madeline" or "Councilman Chris" step up to become the first provisional governor of the re-organized Nation-State of "Greater Midwestria" the moment two thirds of the jobs in their former states dried up? More to the point, how would the citizens of these "new nations" react when trucks stopped coming to the 7-Eleven, or the Walmart? What about the millions of acres of "pre-developed" land within these states that are currently owned by national if not international conglomerates? Is "West Energy Partners LLC" going to send a strike force to take back the 300,000 acres of woodlands they own in the former state of North Carolina? Maybe not, but if they're bankrolling leadership in the neighboring new fiefdom...maybe that nation-state does.

The bottom line is this; "Left" and "Right" are living in something of a fantasy land. What's really likely to happen, is that both the Democratic and Republican Parties will dissolve and reform into two or more new parties...I suggest "Centrists", and "Populists". I predict as the years go by, we'll see more hegemony between the "Progressives" and the "Moderates", resulting in the "Centrists" establishing dominance...with the "Populist" primaries being the real "battleground". Twenty years from now, I think we'll be more like Europe, politically...with everything that means. Will we have our own "Northern Ireland", or our own "Baltic States"? Possibly.
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SSG William Jones
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I'll need to look into this. Having internet problems.
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1SG Dennis Hicks
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So lets see VDARE already has a bias and then they (Correction, the author Faith J Goldy who is described as Far right, white supremisist) this video "WHITES HAVE RIGHTS" yeah that honest and fare reporting right there, NOT. (When you take an organization that has leftist views using a far right white supremacist as their story you can see the bias.)
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1SG Dennis Hicks
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Cynthia C. - There won't be any divorce, what will happen is the violence will ratchet up and innocent folks will get hurt or die.
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