Yes, please. Protecting and solidifying rights in the areas we can is the only way we can get through this nightmare. Hopefully progressives can claw back from this although it’s going to take generations.
I bet the state’s rights crowd will love this
“not like that”
Literally the civil war started because kansas didn’t want to be a slave state. The whole state’s right thing is just a talking point not a held belief.
Are you saying the next civil war will be fought over abortion and LGBTQ rights?
I’m just saying the whole “state’s rights” things is sort of a red herring. The right believes they don’t have to follow the rules; “crimes are when undesireables do things only I should be allowed to do”
Honestly I’d feel safer if we reduce the power of the federal government and put the power to the states. Sorry left-leaning people in red states, can’t let states like yours drag the country down with you.
As someone in a swing state, I’d be ok with that. Make the US like the EU.
For one thing, every 4 years residents of swing states get relentlessly harassed and it fucking sucks. But also It’s so so much easier to make changes on a smaller local level without the influence of distant populations. Sure it would suck in some ways and for some states, but maybe if each state only had to convince a few thousand people to do better, rather than literally millions (presidential election, very demoralizing), swing states would be more left leaning.
And if not, well it would probably be a lot easier to move states than move countries, even if they were EU style countries.
After all, you don’t need to learn a new language or integrate into a new culture when you move. People move in Europe all the time, and the US states is easy mode compared to that
No concrete plans yet but we’ll see what they can do. Good to see that some people haven’t given up all hope.
Do not give up hope. Don’t stop trying to make the world a better place. As long as we have people that take action, we still have hope.
I’m done, y’all can have hope. My hope was deleted long ago.
I’m prone to thinking like that too, but what keeps me from staying that way is the knowledge that that’s exactly what the fascists want. So fuck em, it may be illogical but they can pry my belief that we can build a better world from my cold dead hands.
Fighting fascism is a great cause to rally behind and give people purpose.
We need your help.
I’ve done nothing useful or transformative.
You don’t need to be a rockstar. Almost nobody’s a rockstar. We need you to be you and to give at least one shit.
I’m done
Just the smallest shit. One iota. One atom.
Don’t give in to what those fuckers want.
If nothing else, save a little for the next vote in 2 years. We can’t afford to lose you.
I still have hope… just not for America. I can make somewhere else better.
Unfortunately, I believe America affects the world.
California should just separate from Fed
A constitutional crisis is very likely over the next 4 years. And if it does, all bets are off.
Solve the water crisis, then yeah
Australia uses desalinization and it works well.
True, at least the magas don’t have full control of every state government.
Thats the small hope I’m hanging on to. Federalism might save our country from fascism. Hopefully…
