Shit, I'm surprised we've made it as long as we have.featureless wrote: Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:00 pm We're in serious trouble. I'm not really seeing a way out of this without eating a giant shit sandwich and dealing with the subsequent indigestion.
My son, who is about the wisest person I know (must be spouse's doing, because ...) observes that this country is simply too damn big. We've people from Florida, 3000 miles away, who must have been dropped on their heads as infants, sitting in a legislative branch of government making decisions that directly affect me, in Oregon. And I reciprocate...
Except, I've a paltry 5 reps (6 next year), Florida has 27. So Florida has 5 times the impact in congress than Oregon. I could go off on the senate too; like there's all of 14 people living in Alaska and they still have 2 senators. I don't like that many palins having anything to say about my world...
The point is simple. I've nothing in common with Floridians or whatever people from Ohio, or Iowa, or Alabama call themselves, and especially Texans, Jesus especially Texans.
Nor they with me.
The intellectually - philosophically sound principle of strength in unity / weakness in division, works only, it seems, if we've a common foe. Except when we did, in the form of covid, we still couldn't get our heads out of our asses. And there was that week following 9/11 where we might have pulled ourselves together...but, the moronic sock puppet in the WH at the time had difficulty spelling his own name without the help of the dick, who saw opportunities for his stock portfolio.
Those who would prefer to see the union substantially weaker are thoroughly enjoying themselves in what we've become. And...I just don't see us ever coming together. Thus, it seems time the states dis-unite. We are just too fucking big. Perhaps there's room for three or four counties here. Maybe more.
Just don't join Oregon with California. Better California be with Arizona and Nevada than with Oregon and Washington. Maybe we could join Canada?