Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
I doubt that America as we know it can survive, period. There needs to be a change - whether that's about wealth classes, political beliefs, or various -isms. We can't use a system that was intentionally broken to fix things. The words of slavers from 250 years ago are too weak. The way that things have developed across the regions of this massive, unwieldy, federation needs amendment.
Unfortunately, right now the pendulum is swinging hard in one direction. There's no meaningful fighters on the other side. So us little people have to cling to hope - and that hope is increasingly looking like it has to come from force, and from the barrel of a gun.
orgrinrt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s simply too much centralized power there. You need something more of a union of independent states with very limited “federal” power, much like the EU. Sure, there will never be a clean consensus on anything, but at least there’s no chance a single grifter can seize so much power to wield that they can basically just do whatever to whoever within the federation and beyond.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 13 hours ago
We had that briefly, but it's been decreasing steadily since the 1870s.