Quote: (03-12-2019 04:36 PM)Once Was Not Wrote:
In regards to the massive concentration of left of center population residing in large, especially coastal, cities. Perhaps the solution is these cities separating into their own city-states and governing themselves, implementing their own idealistic utopia ideals their population wants without burdening the rest of the nation or being stopped by the rural population. Of course the cities and everything else are codependent so trade deals would have to be made. Perhaps the liberal city-states could form a sort of coalition so we wouldn't need separate deals with each one like the states were burdened with in the early years of the union.
Honestly this seems like the easiest and most peaceful solution to this ever deepening political divide. It would also free up conservatives stuck in states dominated by one or more large cities. Californians would finally be liberated from the big coastal cities. New York from NYC. Illinois from Chicago, Florida from Miami and Tampa, etc. They get out of our way, we get out of theirs. All while preserving the economy and preventing a collapse by creating deals with the Liberal Socialist Progressive City States Union of America or whatever.
I think large sections of the country seceding would be a much messier, chaotic, and drawn out process.
I've proposed the liberal-city state solution just as described before but I don't think it's very realistic in retrospect.
Problems with liberal city-state(s) solution:
What makes you think the elites in cities are going to voluntarily give up larges parts of their state that they have supported and vice versa for country people supporting city people?
How do you split resources in a way where everyone is happy? Who gets the good stuff? Who gets the debt?
Everything has been set-up in a manner where city/suburb/rural area exists and complements each other. Where do you draw the line in purple suburbia?
City-states make sense from a political purity stand point but aren't really practical in implementation. You have WAY better odds of success starting a MAGA city-state in rural West Virginia for example, where no one wants to live, than convincing a growing demographic majority to break apart numerous states/cities in a hugely complicated manner.
Furthermore, I would argue that the true MAGA crowd in the USA is 30-35% tops. Of those, many will not be down with secession or won't be able to follow through even if they wanted to. But 5% of Trump voters (out of 63 million) is about 3 million people and that's all you need to take over certain states completely and therefore, is a good goal to shoot for. The 2018 mid-terms proved how MAGA the country really was so don't delude yourself into thinking half the country is gonna sign up for what you're selling.
Best realistic plan that can actually be executed:
1. Vote Yang for President. Get Yang bucks. Fuel for the fire. Bonus that it might accelerate a weakening of the federal gov't; making it easier to break off.
2. Take Yang Bucks and have a massive migration to one or more of a handful of states; places that are DEEP red and have low population numbers are probably best bet.
Here is the list of states that voted Trump 60% or higher in 2016 (highest at top)
West Virginia
Wyoming
Oklahoma
North Dakota
Kentucky
Alabama
South Dakota
Tennessee
Arkansas
Wyoming and North Dakota are probably best bets: they have populations less than 1 million, TONS of land that no one cares about or wants, are deep red, the culture is very individualistic/anti-federal gov't, and they have a large homogeneous racial block. In these places, you need very little money to survive. Wyoming is also leading the way on cryptocurrency regulations; which might make the transition from USD to some form of crypto usage more viable.
One major risk to the mountain west though is if Yellowstone blows up. But most people are fucked if that goes but you're REALLY fucked if you're in the mountain west.
3. Take over state gov't at all levels, GOP and democrat. Start morphing it into your desired state; get pieces in place before pulling the plug with the feds.
4. Demand peaceful secession from the US and form your own country.
5. If you can't get the entire state, try to get a chunk of the state that no one wants and has no value to either the state and/or feds. If you have some rich people in your tribe, you might be able to straight up buy your own large chunk of sovereign land from the US/state gov't directly in a deal. They might be desperate for money/resources. Many local/state governments are doing this already; selling gov't assets to pay off huge debts.
Bottom line:
This is actually semi-feasible with some effort and patience. If you doubt that, keep in mind that this is just a smaller scale version of what Latin America has been doing to the US minus the secession bit. Get the welfare money, breed, take over gov't, and make rules that suit your interest = you win.
The thing is, you need to do this sooner rather than later. Eventually, the libtards will take over the MAGA strongholds that I listed. They did it to Arizonia and they are doing it in Idaho right now among other places. Libtards already have some small footholds in the places I mentioned (Jackson Hole, WY for example) so don't think what is good today will still be good tomorrow.