Comment by inglor_cz
4 years ago
This sounds like a great recipe for disintegration, Yugoslavia- or at best Spanish American empire - style.
If a distant metropolis does not have to care what people in the flyover land think, why not declare independence?
It is a small wonder that the US had, so far, only one secession and civil war crisis, and a testament to your resilient constitutional order.
> If a distant metropolis does not have to care what people in the flyover land think, why not declare independence?
The distant metropolis is rich enough to pay a lot of taxes to support a long war. Flyoverland is definitionally low density meaning it has relatively few people. All they have to fight the war is some extremely stubborn people. That can be enough but an awful lot of people are going to die. There’s a great deal of good on avoiding civil war.
Yeah, that right to bear arms against the tyranny of the state sure is working well . . .
I am not an American, but it is my impression that most American gun owners, if they carry their gun at all, have mostly defense against common crime in mind, and that the loud minority screaming slogans about the tree of liberty watered by blood of patriots and scoundrels is pretty tiny, much like most loud minorities online.
Eh, I'm older, but was taught the reason for the right to bear arms in grade school. It wasn't an idea among a fringe minority; it was just common knowledge. I'm sure it's not taught that way in most schools now, though.