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I’m a little surprised that there’s nothing from the West Coast states on this
There is but it's from the right. Dividing the state into smaller states. It's not gained traction with most republicans. I think both sides want it all. The whole US. Sadly I do not see it happening. People want the ring of power.
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I’d love to see state partition movements take off, but they’re not very tenable because of how easy it is to block at the federal level.
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May I understand why would you like US or Canada to Balkanise?
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There's an enormous rural-urban divide in America and in many states the rural population has essentially zero representation because the urban areas have more people.
Cities already have their own governments, so if they were their own city state it wouldn't change much for them. However, if they no longer dominated the state policy decisions, then rural areas could live under the policy regime's they prefer, too.
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Yeah, all of that is technical. I agree. But the root problem is people and their view about liberty. Far too many people want to control people they will never meet. Getting people out of this thinking is extremely hard. Getting people to realize that central control over education is a bad idea is hard too. I just don't think very many people are seeking out solutions for a country with multiple cultures that have very different ideas about what is right and wrong.
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