Why does America need to stop existing in a communist world? Why can't it simply have it's inner power structures replaced with communism while remaining in existence? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by HexaSnoot@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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This is not a joke. I actually don't know.

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[-] iie@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Depends on how you define "America." After you change the government, economic system, culture, and name, it starts to be a Ship of Theseus thing.

The only question left is the borders, but "in a communist world" borders are less important. We might even have overlapping voting regions and sub-regions like a big complicated Venn diagram, depending on the issue at hand. Maybe everyone in the Rio Grande watershed votes on Rio Grande-related issues. If your farming community straddles the watershed divide, maybe half your neighbors vote on Rio Grande-related issues and the other half don't.

I don't see a reason to keep the current borders of America, but also, I'm not sure what the borders will even mean.