Personally, I am hoping the United States we know dies, and is replaced by something else. Maybe a balkanization, or perhaps an remake of the US.
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If I were the god-emperor, I would like the US to be split into four major regions, each with their own judiciary, military, executive, and legislative branches. Each of these territories submit representatives to a national body that creates a common framework for the things all the regions agree upon, but otherwise, the regions are basically super-states.
The national government could have something like 53 justices total. Each region sends 13 justices - 3 judiciary, 3 military, 3 legislative, 3 executive, and 1 to represent the current president of a region. The national president also has a single justice to represent them. By having so many justices of different backgrounds and from competing backers, we can keep an atrocity like the current supreme court from re-emerging. Especially if there are term and age limits, and remove presidential justices once their president has left office.
There are other ideas rolling around in my skull, but the gist of it all, is that we should make it much harder for anyone to establish themselves as a permanent and singular authority.
What about an EU type of alliance between states instead of a federal government? Seems like it could be far more equitable
I think the two arrangements are a trade off. Many smaller states that make individual alliances would be able to set their own agendas and law easily - but that becomes a messy patchwork, that might not be able to compete in big affairs. A national government beholdened to only itself is organized but autocratic, and won’t have much leeway for social evolution.
I figure that having three mainland regions and an fourth region to represent all exterior territories would allow for checks and balances, while still allowing individual people to have largely familiar laws and customs to follow. If a particular region sucks at something, the other regions would have enough influence to convince people to call those regions home.
For example, say that Middle America is a Christofascist hellhole that bullies LGBTQ+ folk. Having a national framework that allows citizens to freely migrate to other regions would allow queer people to pick up stakes and leave, without needing passports nor permission to do so. A patchwork of individual states would make it much harder to get around.
Reasonable. I mostly want my relatively progressive area to be free from the baggage associated with places like the middle America you’ve described. Other folks welcome of course!
IMO, a big problem is how to let people pick up stakes and find a place they want to call home. Assuming that the USA we know is replaced by a overhauled version, universal income and universal systems would be key to that.
Moving to a new place is expensive and fraught with complications - so having guarantees of a livable income, food, free basic shelter, healthcare, and so forth, would allow people to explore the land to find their better future.
i hope we balkanize. ill happily stay in the west with the people who dont want to kill me.
I’m less optimistic about Balkanization. If the Democrats who dominate politics in the west are anything to go by, we’re in for authoritarian feudalism that dresses itself if up as progressive. This is without mentioning the wars that would be inevitable in a federal collapse; wars in which at least some of the players have nukes.
I, for one, would like to become part of Canada. Pennsylvania (and the rest of the northeast) isn’t that awful, it’s once you get south of the Mason-Dixon or west of the Mississippi (and before you hit the coastal states) that the country gets really awful and backwards, surely Canada would be able to tolerate us. They tolerate Quebec, anyways.
Canada does the same, have you heard of Alberta?
See I’d always been told/had heard in passing it was the residents of Quebec that other Canadians found the most… shall we say contentious, but I’ve also heard plenty about Danielle Smith and her Trump sycophancy shitfuckery the past few years. Is Quebec no longer considered the red-headed stepchild of the provinces?
Yeah, the reputation I’ve always heard is that they were tryhards cosplaying as Frech: ouiaboos, if you will
ouiaboos, that’s good, I’m stealing that, it’s mine now.
Your privilege is showing
huh
Most people i know who hate America are young privileged liberals
What about people who’ve been attacked and kidnapped by ICE?
What about the indigenous people whose land was stolen and renamed “America”?
What about the black people who are undermined by a system built to oppress and oppose them in every way?
What about Iranian, Lebanese, and Palestinian people who are being bombed by American bombs?
It would seem that most people you know are “young privileged liberals”.
As for me, I’m a transgender woman who is forced to watch in horror as my rights, and those of my brothers and sisters, are eroded away and we are persecuted.
I may be young, and I have some privilege (though, I remember getting food donations from the EU when I was younger), but I am most certainly NOT a liberal.
Yours truly, a commie tgirl ☭ ⚧️
Sounds like you only know other Americans lol. Saying “your privilege is showing” and not meaningfully elaborating isn’t helping anyone.
My in-laws are from south korea and my sister in law lives in south korea. The family i know there loves coming to America.
My best friends are from Laos. They already love America and are the most successful of my friends.
The only people i personally know that hate America are the children in white middle class families.
The sample size is small, but it’s what i experience.
I’m Asian, my experience is that American media in Asia is so dominant that many Asians dream and fawn over the US. Little do they realise the casual gun violence, lack of affordable healthcare and education and the poverty in the country. A lot of Asians also think Trump and ICE only go after “illegals” because Asian media don’t really cover much of that event and is considered an American domestic issue.
The depiction of the US in Asia is sanitised and viewed from rose tinted glasses. That’s not to say America isn’t great in many aspects but many Asian migrants say it’s not what they expected.