Comment by GolfPopper
17 hours ago
>I don’t know how the US charts a path back from all this.
There isn't one. And the sooner we all come to terms with that, the better off we and posterity will be. The constitutional government of the United States failed long before January 20th, 2025. Chasing sunk costs on this scale as futile, even if the alternatives are terrifying.
In my opinion, the best, just, course forward is a Constitutional Convention that dissolves the United States Government and replaces it with nothing. Let the states and territories govern themselves as they choose, and work out needed compacts and agreements going forward.
Boggles my mind you'd even imagine a positive scenario here. Let the states choose? This is not only how we kept slavery going by letting states drive, but it also caused a civic war when we had no federal coordination.
Nay, we must reform and reclaim a just federal government. Letting states drive themselves will turn the country into extreme violence.
> Letting states drive themselves will turn the country into extreme violence.
Who days that doesn't happen now? Seems like wishful thinking.
The states should be free to choose their own course.
Citizens should be allowed to move freely between them.
May the best governance win.
You are wildly underestimating the difficulty of building anew. Fortunately, you are also overestimating the impossibility of coming back from organizational trauma.
You may be underestimating the historical significance of the moment a critical percentage of a population loses faith in its institutions.
He should've been locked up on January 7th. That was the death knell.