The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(12-10-2019, 12:00 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The problem would be in deciding what would be the Red States and what would be the Blue states. It might not be on the vote.  Such a state as Nebraska or Utah gets good ("blue") social conditions with strongly-Republican ("red") politics. Some areas within some very "blue" states are very "red" (like eastern New Mexico) and some areas in very "red" states are very "blue" in their politics (Atlanta, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, New Orleans, Texas' giant cities and border areas)...

Give America a dictatorial government that neglects or abuses the parts of America that did not vote for it for the indefinite future, and America could split much as Yugoslavia did, complete with rancor and bloodshed. Being on the wrong side of a borderline could make one a pariah or worse.

Civil wars over ethnicity are bad enough, but a civil war over the core principles of economics are even nastier. It is easy for me to characterize Donald Trump as standing for an economic order in which the vast majority of people have responsibilities to support the gain, indulgence and power of the rich-and-powerful irrespective of the misery that they are obliged to endure.  It is also easy to see how people ordered to endure such could easily decide that they will not do so -- they will instead tax the easy money.

So one side is for a high-tech feudalism and the other is for freedom. How do you think that will work?

There will be no agreement about how to divide the nation, if secession happens. Some states will just decide to do so, and then the rest will decide how to respond to this "illegal" act. And then, yes, it could be that portions of a seceding state will secede from the state and rejoin the union. It's hard to see how isolated cities could do that though. Classic thinks the residents of blue cities in red states can be rounded up and moved. Does not seem likely, but who knows how rancorous or oppressive our 4T could get.