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I take the contrarian viewpoint here. I think the division is good. There's no reason people in the valley should have to live by the cultural rules of the pe
by Consultant32452 6y ago
I take the contrarian viewpoint here. I think the division is good. There's no reason people in the valley should have to live by the cultural rules of the people in Jackson Mississippi or vice versa. That's exactly what happens right now under our political system. The US has at least two distinct cultures and the more they grow to despise one another the sooner we can have an amicable divorce and allow each group to live freely. There can never be mutual respect when we toggle back and forth between who is forcing their will on the other.
- ralusek 6y agoIf we're not striving for some modicum of cultural unity, then yes, we need to get over our insistence that every solution be implemented at the federal level.
- tshaddox 6y agoSounds nice, but obviously that “amicable divorce” is extremely difficult to imagine.
- Consultant32452 6y agoThe UK is in the process of a nonviolent divorce with Brexit.
- tshaddox 6y agoThe EU has an explicit process for members to leave nonviolently. The United States has, well, one example of an extreme opposite of that.
- Consultant32452 6y agoThe former USSR dissolved rather peacefully at the end of the cold war.
- phobosanomaly 6y agoWith the notable exception of the former Yugoslavia.