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Totally accurate IMO as I have relatives from the midwest but I can't imagine them reading this type of stuff, let alone agreeing with this. I have this hope th

Totally accurate IMO as I have relatives from the midwest but I can't imagine them reading this type of stuff, let alone agreeing with this. I have this hope the federal government will increase the power of states to have much more autonomy in their own laws so the ones pulling their own weight can do so unencumered. Let the other ones be better or worse off on their own accord and see where people move to as things get more extreme. Maybe that's a nice idea for a simulation.

ashark 10y ago
> I have this hope the federal government will increase the power of states to have much more autonomy in their own laws so the ones pulling their own weight can do so unencumered. A lot of really nice things that already exist (at least somewhere) or may soon exist, like single-payer healthcare or universal basic income, don't work very well if you can't control borders and imports, which states can't do. Without actual sovereignty they'll still be subject to many of the same problems that make it effectively impossible for voluntary associations to address all sorts of important issues.
- sebringj 10y ago
  I hate that I can't fix my misspelling of "unencumbered" as I wrote it around 2 AM... but to further explain my imagined and laymen view point in terms of politics, the federal government would be responsible for things like borders and constitutional rights etc. but step back on things the state legalizes that do not infringe on those basic freedom's such as weed for example and money toward scientific research or a carbon tax, etc, that the state's themselves can decide on. Even Roe vs. Wade and Gay Marriage can be up for grabs. The places that are backwards cannot force people to live there and CA and other progressive states will get all the good people anyway. The country cannot have a black and white approach, one-size fits all, obviously as it is so divided as the author describes. How can you have people living in the past dictating our future? It is dead weight. Try telling someone in the backwoods they have to have more restrictions on their guns from a perspective of being in a crowded city. It doesn't make sense to have the same laws everywhere although I still think the gays and women's rights are fundamental but that doesn't seem to be the consensus on the red states.

ashark 10y ago

> I have this hope the federal government will increase the power of states to have much more autonomy in their own laws so the ones pulling their own weight can do so unencumered. A lot of really nice things that already exist (at least somewhere) or may soon exist, like single-payer healthcare or universal basic income, don't work very well if you can't control borders and imports, which states can't do. Without actual sovereignty they'll still be subject to many of the same problems that make it effectively impossible for voluntary associations to address all sorts of important issues.

sebringj 10y ago
I hate that I can't fix my misspelling of "unencumbered" as I wrote it around 2 AM... but to further explain my imagined and laymen view point in terms of politics, the federal government would be responsible for things like borders and constitutional rights etc. but step back on things the state legalizes that do not infringe on those basic freedom's such as weed for example and money toward scientific research or a carbon tax, etc, that the state's themselves can decide on. Even Roe vs. Wade and Gay Marriage can be up for grabs. The places that are backwards cannot force people to live there and CA and other progressive states will get all the good people anyway. The country cannot have a black and white approach, one-size fits all, obviously as it is so divided as the author describes. How can you have people living in the past dictating our future? It is dead weight. Try telling someone in the backwoods they have to have more restrictions on their guns from a perspective of being in a crowded city. It doesn't make sense to have the same laws everywhere although I still think the gays and women's rights are fundamental but that doesn't seem to be the consensus on the red states.