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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
People can’t decide to secede and be sovereign citizens. Why would that change just because it’s now a larger group of people?
Wyoming has about 600,000 people. What if they all wanted to leave? What if 1,200,000 people in California wanted to leave? That’s twice as many people! Can they leave? What if 70% of a state wants to leave but 30% want to stay? Do the people who want to stay just get dragged out? There’s just no nice clean way for secession to happen. If people want to secede, they unfortunately need to want it enough to fight a civil war.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
^This. Also, many other complex details. Imagine Colorado seceding. It is surrounded by American states, has federal land inside it, interstate highways maintained (at least partially) by federal, etc. It’s a logistical nightmare. Seceding for the right reasons sounds cool af though. I’d love to be in a place that wasn’t ruled by two political parties that only exist to take from its citizens and give to corporations. My state would fucking die on its own, though. Especially so, now that has turned solidly red.