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This sounds like a great recipe for disintegration, Yugoslavia- or at best Spanish American empire - style. If a distant metropolis does not have to care what
by inglor_cz 4y ago
This sounds like a great recipe for disintegration, Yugoslavia- or at best Spanish American empire - style.
If a distant metropolis does not have to care what people in the flyover land think, why not declare independence?
It is a small wonder that the US had, so far, only one secession and civil war crisis, and a testament to your resilient constitutional order.
- hgsgm 4y ago
- drewcoo 4y agoYeah, that right to bear arms against the tyranny of the state sure is working well . . .
- inglor_cz 4y agoI am not an American, but it is my impression that most American gun owners, if they carry their gun at all, have mostly defense against common crime in mind, and that the loud minority screaming slogans about the tree of liberty watered by blood of patriots and scoundrels is pretty tiny, much like most loud minorities online.
- kbelder 4y agoEh, I'm older, but was taught the reason for the right to bear arms in grade school. It wasn't an idea among a fringe minority; it was just common knowledge. I'm sure it's not taught that way in most schools now, though.
- barry-cotter 4y ago> If a distant metropolis does not have to care what people in the flyover land think, why not declare independence? The distant metropolis is rich enough to pay a lot of taxes to support a long war. Flyoverland is definitionally low density meaning it has relatively few people. All they have to fight the war is some extremely stubborn people. That can be enough but an awful lot of people are going to die. There’s a great deal of good on avoiding civil war.
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