There are enormous geopolitical, economic and climate ramifications to the U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition. If you live in America, basically none of them are good.
There are enormous geopolitical, economic and climate ramifications to the U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition. If you live in America, basically none of them are good.
Will America even be around in a decade… Are they gonna have a two state solution?
No. You can’t split a country along urban/rural lines. Even if you split out the south, the rest would fight to take it back due to all the resources there, especially things like military bases.
Realistically it’ll probably be more like a bankruptcy thing and admittedly somewhat like what Trump is doing.
Consider all he’s doing to destroy our industry, science, technology, throw away any global influence and good will, wreck our strong trading position, turn us inward, isolated, xenophobic. Keep people desperate with lost jobs, healthcare, government services. Think how that plays with the $1T in tax cuts for the wealthy, and leaving all our prior debt levels in the dust.
What happens when that all catches up? We forced into austerity measures, high inflation, unending joblessness, military we can’t come close to affording? Tax rates skyrocket and We fight to reclaim those tax cuts for the wealthy.
I’d much prefer to see the US split up into separate states, then form a union much like the EU instead of the monolithic eldritch crap they have right now.
That’s sort of what we have now? A federal government that is made up of a union of states…
What we really need is to fix Congress and restore their power.
Republicans have been shifting power from Congress to the executive and judicial branches for the last 50 years. All because they want a king.
Fixing Congress would take a single bill. Namely H.R. 4125, the Equal Voices Act.
Well, that’s the first step. There are more, but H.R. 4125 would be like 70% of it.
That would be bad. I can’t see a scenario where the US crumbles in a decade without global collateral damage.
A silent exit from global superpower would be the best option that involves the least amount of bloodshed