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As a non American, I don't understand how exactly can the country break apart when many of your country men have died in a bloody war to preserve the same count
by anshumankmr 5y ago
As a non American, I don't understand how exactly can the country break apart when many of your country men have died in a bloody war to preserve the same country. Plus, the fact is the states are stronger together. Sure, they don't align culturally as much but the Federal government steps in to help each state in one way or another (such as how Texas needed help during the crisis it had in the winter despite one of its high ranking officials talking openly about secession a few months before that).
Wouldn't deeply entrenched business interests resist this tooth and nail as I am sure many supply chains are interdependent on several states.
Besides, wasn't it Ulysses Grant and Abraham Lincoln who believed that preserving the union would save more lives in the end as if there were two countries in the same subcontinent, war would be inevitable over the centuries (in a manner similar to European wars that had been happening for almost a millennia at that point). Don't the leaders realize that simple fact?
- syki 5y agoPeople, cultures, ideas, and norms change over time. Entrenched business interests would be opposed to the dissolution of the union. But an opportunist with the right charisma and comes along and divides people sufficiently then those interests might not be powerful enough to maintain the union.
- anshumankmr 5y agoBut the common sense fact should be that if there is dissolution of the Union, peace will never last and the two countries will be in a perpetual war or a cold war. Plus assuming the split is the same as before, minorities will suffer terribly. Back then, it was the slaves who got the worst of it but now America has become a melting pot of all cultures. What will happen to those people? And the allies of America will be left to fend for themselves such as Taiwan, Ukraine, Japan , India etc? Honestly, I presume that common sense will prevail and nothing will change hopefully, such as Roe v Wade not being overturned.
- syki 5y agoIn times of ideologically driven divides common sense is one of the first casualties.
- anshumankmr 5y agoI genuinely don't believe this is the straw that will break the camel's back. It is a very slippery slope to be on, but my fingers are crossed.