Wall Street Journal: Imagine Breaking Up The USA

[K. Darien Freeheart]

I say HORRAY!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204482304574219813708759806.html

[John Edward Mercier]

That's because people think that the outcome would be as they envision.
Ask Texans if they would like to be reabsorbed by Mexico... or Alaskans by Russia... or even those in NH be reabsorbed as Quebecois, Iriquois, or Massachussets. The answer will be quite different than when people are envisioning the outcome.

[Ogre]

Picture an America that is run not, as now, by a top-heavy Washington autocracy but, in freewheeling style, by an assemblage of largely autonomous regional republics reflecting the eclectic economic and cultural character of the society.

Wait, wait, I have an idea -- how about dividing the country in 50 autonomous governing bodies where the people of each of the 50 locations can make their own laws? Maybe they could agree on mutual economic and defense rules, but would otherwise be free to decide for themselves how to govern. We could even create a couple short documents that would set up those rules that would limit the power of others to decide those 50 areas' laws. That document could even describe that no central government could take rights from those 50 autonomous republics so they would be safe from an overreaching centralized government. Think that would work?

[John Edward Mercier]

Not any better than it has.

[FreelanceFreedomFighter]

Picture an America that is run not, as now, by a top-heavy Washington autocracy but, in freewheeling style, by an assemblage of largely autonomous regional republics reflecting the eclectic economic and cultural character of the society.

Wait, wait, I have an idea -- how about dividing the country in 50 autonomous governing bodies where the people of each of the 50 locations can make their own laws? Maybe they could agree on mutual economic and defense rules, but would otherwise be free to decide for themselves how to govern. We could even create a couple short documents that would set up those rules that would limit the power of others to decide those 50 areas' laws. That document could even describe that no central government could take rights from those 50 autonomous republics so they would be safe from an overreaching centralized government. Think that would work?

I really needed that! Good one...