Trump’s re-election will mean four hideous years of the GOP playing constant Civil War Chicken at best - as this Heritage Foundation ghoul made clear - and actual civil war at worst.
Avoiding that bloody nightmare is a pretty damn good reason to suck it up and vote for Biden.
Yeah, that was the moment at which I lost any remaining shred of interest in anything Cenk Uygur had or ever would have to say, that is, when he started pushing the genius Constitutional Convention idea. There's brain worms, and then there's brain snakes that just swallow the damn thing whole.
Thank You!
I'm so glad you like it.
(Many years ago, I was going to get that (w/out the proofreader's corrections & in an elaborate, almost illegible medieval font) for my 1st tattoo. My tattoo artist gave me this look 😐. I said, "come on. it'll be funny." And he said, "not for your first tattoo.")
Civil War 2.0 is a bunch of states seceding and the rest of us not making much of an effort to bring them back. I’d feel bad for a lot of decent people stuck there but I feel bad for them as it is
But to no meaningful end, because one side of the conflict simply wants things that are true to not untrue and policies that cannot work to succeed, so when they fail - which will be quickly - they'll do the only thing they can do, which is blame the other side somehow and start a war anyway
Also, there is no stable geopolitical configuration of North America that doesn't have a unified United States. There is no realistic option except to consolidate control over the entire country.
How would New England secede, though? Would we band together with NY and NJ and be our own little country? I don't know if it's useful to spitball because I don't see how secession could even be a last-ditch maneuver to avoid fascism in MA. How could we actually fight? We're so small.
Fascist attacks on Oregon during the Trump admin were abetted by law enforcement (per PPB SMS records) and at least one member of the state assembly (on CCTV video, letting attackers in the door).
Traveling from Washington to riot somehow didn’t trigger federal prosecution of the attackers either.
All the proof anybody needs for this is the Republican efforts that try to prevent people from going to a different state for medical care.
That's just a little taste of the kind of control they want.
Red states are generally speaking economically dependent on blue states.
(Vice versa, too, but not as much.)
To whatever extent red-staters acknowledge this, they believe they're *entitled* to it. They think of blue states as also red states, but temporarily under the control of the wrong people.
Yes, an the blue states are uppity* in their disdain for the red states and therefore deserve to be humiliated.
Plus, they like to tourist at the Today show but would prefer more sidewalk deference.
* This can be a fair criticism but almost never actually is. I do disdain antiabortion misogynists.
Also under this scenario the “red” states wouldn’t be the ones motivated to secede. They won! A civil war would be sparked by “blue” state recalcitrance and resistance being met with military force.
Red states only exist on electoral college maps. There is no state in the US that would not enter into its own civil war if it actually tried to secede.
Except maybe like Hawaii or Alaska.
