Election 2018

[David Horn]

(11-08-2018, 06:21 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(11-08-2018, 04:43 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: One conceivable possibility is that the USA may decentralize.  We might see state lines redrawn.  We could  see semi-autonomy on a local scale, such as charter cities.

The catch is that Boomers-as part of a deal-may see their visions realized only in particular regions, or locally.

Would it be possible these days to have a polka dotted state, blue dots in a red sea, within a given area?  You vote town by town which state you belong to?  Every once in a while you can revote to join the other state, but not too often as it would be disruptive?  Would you need a supermajority after the first vote?  What sort of rules would be necessary to create such states?

Would the existing red states let their blue dots go freely?  Vice versa?  Would adding new states of a given color change balance of power in the senate, with two votes given per state?  If you just allowed the blue cities to join in new dotty states, you would move to undo the old slave compromises, get closer to a representative democracy.

Lotsa questions...

If this happens, it seems to me that Yugoslavia is the model we would follow: fracture until the pieces are stable enough to exist, then reassemble enough to acquire reasonable mass without starting the fracture process again.  At that, only Bosnia and Herzegovina managed to reunite, and that may be due to geography rather than politics.