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The hotness of abortion (can you even conceive of a more controversial issue?) and the geographical nature of having people travel to other states to get aborti
by Buttons840 4y ago
The hotness of abortion (can you even conceive of a more controversial issue?) and the geographical nature of having people travel to other states to get abortions, while some states try to limit what you can and cannot do in other states, this does seem like the most likely to cause civil war (most likely of the many unlikely possibilities).
The legal shenanigans we see happening could deepen this divide, as you say, and transform it into a economic divide as well. Will we one day seek companies that do not host their data in certain states? How will this effect those states where nobody wants to do business?
Texas recently passed a law that Twitter cannot censor people based on political views, and that it is illegal for Twitter to simply leave the state. We may see this play out, where a state feels wronged by a "foreign" company in another state, yet may not have the power to enforce any punishment on the company in those other states, again, furthering the divide.
- robonerd 4y agoCivil war seems far-fetched; states have a lot less autonomy today than they did before the last civil war, specifically because of that civil war. The ability of a state to successfully wage war against others has been largely scrutinized and corrected. I think the most likely outcome is Congress passes a federal law (which inevitably pisses off one side, the other, or maybe even the extremes of both sides) and the losing side gets back to the status quo of seething mostly-peacefully about it.