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Trump says if he is jailed that could be 'breaking point' for Americans
(www.reuters.com)
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There are times I wonder if the civil war was a good idea. Just let those confederate states break away from the north. I don't support the idea of a confederacy, nor do I support slavery, but hear me out.
I fully believe that the south on their own would have crumbled as a country, as the new, smaller USA would have told the world "Hey, if you buy goods from the south, just know it's with slave labor. If you buy it from the USA, it's 100% slave free.
After some years, the then democrats (which today would be the republicans....weird, I know), would have screwed their own country up so bad, that I feel each state would have tried to become it's own country. And it's impossible to know where the butterfly takes us from there.
But today we would have a USA that's roughly half the size, quite a bit smaller population wise, but still basically the USA we know today in terms of place in the world.
So now, today, trump would be campaigning down in alabama or florida or some shit, and none of this bullshit would be our problem. Because if he tried campaigning in the USA, he would be shot down HARD. All the racists and confederate flag bearers, and bible thumpers are in the south......and also Ohio for some unexplained reason.
Point is. He would either campaign in a country that won't have him, or campaign in a country that loves him.....but it's not our problem.
Donald Trump is from New York.
It wouldn't be that clean cut. Yes, a good chunk of the southeast would go but you have plenty of states that are discontiguous or so close to a 50-50 split, that we'd end up with a bunch of 1850s Kansas-Missouri situations.
You might want to look at the past two elecctoral college maps before you go blaming everything on the south.
I said "and Ohio". The western states didn't exist back then.
You would consigned millions of people to remain in slavery as well as their descendants for god knows how many generations for the chance it would maybe have stopped trump, a bigot from New York?
It would very much be our problem because then we'd have a nation with fealty to Putin/Russia right on our doorstep.
Then you will starve to death. Comments like this make it obvious who has and hasn't driven through red states.
Why would I starve to death? Do you think blue states don't have farms? Ports?
I LIVE in a red state. Granted, it's a blue city, but take about a 10 minute drive outside of town? Nothing but cows and racists all around. I like the cows more.