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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums👍 I had a dream the country was split
One democratic President...one Republican....One democratic Govenor..one republican. You would choose what party your taxes would go to and thus what party controlled your benefits and spendind....also seperate Senators and Congressmen. FLAME AWAY
JohnnyRingo
(18,619 posts)is another's nightmare.
Tribetime
(4,684 posts)Hope you're doing okay Johnny
FrankTC
(210 posts)Trying to think of a way that citizenship could be defined by allegiance to a virtual state rather than a state presiding over a geography. Maybe really smart people could figure it out. Were nearly there already, with people in their heads identifying with red America or blue. I know I have more in common with some people outside the geographic boundary of the USA than some people within it. As it is now, red America blocks any progress I would hope to see toward a more egalitarian social democratic state, and I certainly hope to block red Americas progress toward an authoritarian, theocratic, kleptocratic kakistocracy. We need to find our way to a relatively amicable divorce because red/blue visions of the good life and the good state are exclusionary. So, yes, lets get creative. Maybe theres ways to separate that dont require the establishment of contiguously bounded land-mass nation states. Or not we could reenact the 1947 India-Pakistan separation, load our stuff on ox carts and wheelbarrows and embark to the promised land (promised to be free of them others, which isnt a high minded goal but like divorce can at least open the way to new questions).