Well, a bunch of dudes in black robes probably went "Blah blah blah" in a way that was probably mostly little more than a post-hoc defence of the Civil War's winner.
Would the USA retake it, though?
Yeah. This is a based comeback. You can do better
*Looks at Republicans budgets*
The US? No.
Yes, the US would 100% retake it. Keep in mind too, most of the people in cities probably wouldn't support succeeding either so it would be a big urban/rural divide and the US coming back would probably be welcomed in cities. Not to mention that no one would want it on their watch, like a democrat wouldn't want other iffy states to start getting ideas and a republican would be pissed off that it would make them look weak. Really the only way the US wouldn't take it back immediately would be if we elected someone whos whole thing was breaking up the republic, and you would see people running on bringing it back into the fold, one way or another.
I'd posit that we never actually finished the first one.
The Republican idea of "balancing budgets" is to cut taxes, cut any sort of social spending, and then give any excess money to corporations. When Democrats come along to pay off the inevitable debts that pile up, Republicans accuse them of "spending us into poverty".
Let's just hope that anarchy doesn't spread across the world.
Yeah, the US *loves* fighting for oil, and Texas has a *lot* of oil and oil refineries.
Yeah Greitens is fucking insane. Like he has a reputation that young women do NOT intern in his office. He's so far into the Trump cult, when he's in town liberals stay home. Don't go to rallies, don't go to the debates. He travels with an "unofficial" conservative armed biker gang, and local cops give them way more power than they deserve. He's all about cops can do no wrong, armed cults can do no wrong, Trump does no wrong.
Same reason the republican are batshit insane, the primary system + gerrymandering.
This is why I don't vote. It's never a choice between 2 perfectly good people and I just have to pick the one who I like better, it's a choice between 2 utterly horrible excuses for human beings and I just have to hope and pray that I end up picking the one that's a tiny TINY bit better than the other. Of course I'd have to pray since neither are actually honest enough for anyone to make a sound judgement on which is a smidge better. Both parties have god awful policies with some decent ones mixed in there somewhere, because we just couldn't just avoid the terrible policies that obviously are a bad idea, have probably been done before and not worked if not several times and not worked, and do what would actually benefit the country as a whole without concern for political parties and political agendas like is the actual job of politicians! That would be silly!
Actually, disagree there. You have lots of ring wing governments which utterly fail at that. The Texas power grid isn't good for business, for example.
But Democratic politicians generally don't talk about defunding the police.
They sure as hell did when it was convenient. I've only got a minute or two, I can pull sources for this timeline later if you'd like, but this is what happened ihe summer of 2020:
The main issue seems to be that democrats are bad at making people follow a party line. There have been plenty of widely popular proposals, which it would actively harm the republicans to vote against, but a few democrats just keep defecting meaning that the republicans will never have to take those tough votes.
Imma push back on college debt forgiveness. There is little to no sense in releasing the debt of exclusively relatively well off people, especially at a moment of high inflation, and the popular support for the idea is an illusion caused by the internet being disproportionately populated by exactly the 20-30 something over-educated bougie class that took out $100k student loans.
$10 says that little timeline is entirely misrepresentative of what actually happened.
