The more I think about things, and how well stuff works in other countries, i believe it’s due to the sheer size and demographic makeup of the country. I often times wonder if it would be better managed with more of an EU style system where certain standards are core across all states and then leave each country to truly govern themselves.
I’m fairly certain this was the original goal when the country was founded and the idea of states rights, but at some it feels like things got flipped on their heads.
(Note, this is probably more of a rant and I know there are definitely things that would not work as well in that situation, but part of me wonders if it’d be a better solution than what we’re stuck with right now)
Haha, no. Quite the opposite. I would love for the west coast states and New England to be unburdened by the mouth breathers in the south. It feels like California and other like minded states could at least move the needle closer to a democratic socialist system without having to drag along the red dead weight.
It’s just not true that the south is dead weight.
The mississippi-missouri river system is a vital transport corridor that enables cheaper exports and transport around the country. Breaking that up across multiple countries would make everyone poorer.
Large parts of the US would lose easy access to the gulf, the atlantic or the pacific.
The naturally defensible boundaries of the continent represent a massive advantage that would go away and drive up defense spending for all the nationlets.
All of us benefit from the US being a single country in huge ways.
I’m tired of paying taxes to people who don’t appreciate it, why can’t that money go to the things I actually want? If anything the Trumpites should be happy to be able to continue without the “damn libs”anyway Edit: added quotations around damn libs because I imagine someone could interpret this literally