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Showing Original Post only (View all)It Is Really Too Bad The "United" States Can't Be Split [View all]
It would be about the only thing that would make me comfortable living here at this point. Instead, I fully expect the Shithole country known as America, will continue to get worse in my remaining years.
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The concept of United is gone. Over and over again the division is stark with no signs of
RKP5637
May 2022
#4
It's a Russian fantasy that the U.S.A. suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union.
hunter
May 2022
#79
And they are still at it. Look at this thread, where the whole stupid idea is playing out again...
Hekate
May 2022
#84
I fear that well might be the only solution, eventually. I see really nothing bridging the gap. And
RKP5637
May 2022
#3
Exactly what I was thinking. We'd be looking at the Berlin wall in Illinois.
lindysalsagal
May 2022
#72
The only problem (well, not the only one) with that map is that many of those "provinces"...
keep_left
May 2022
#15
No split possible. Not in Constitution. A Dreamer's Dream. but wait.....................
Stuart G
May 2022
#89
I think New England, New York, Michigan, etc will be Canadian provinces by that point.
roamer65
May 2022
#64
Molly Ivins. Anne Richards. I like your list -- a lot of my favorite she-roes are Texans.
Hekate
May 2022
#82
I am also against the U.S splitting up. But I don't see how it can be avoided unless
jg10003
May 2022
#27
There's a lot to hate. As another poster pointed out: this is a Russian propaganda wet-dream...
Hekate
May 2022
#90
It's truly scary that they are cozying up to a racist autocrat like Viktor Orban.
Initech
May 2022
#28
The major problem I see even if there were some feasible way to effect a geographical split:
Efilroft Sul
May 2022
#35
Pakistan and India broke apart by agreement, and blood flowed in the streets ...
Hekate
May 2022
#83
The alternative to the impossible split is the almost guaranteed fascist rule
Blaukraut
May 2022
#73