imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
"You see, during this period people believed strongly in organizing around what they called "countries", which were basically collections of people living in a certain area. One of the major countries in the 20th and 21st centuries was called "the United States", and it was a terrible place of corrupt leaders and inequality. It started to collapse in the latter half of the 20th century, then finally fell apart starting with the second BLM protests in 2020. It was completely dissolved by 2030."
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@Felthry as much as i'm more optimistic about politics than i have been in a while, the states falling in a decade seems like a big ask
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@monorail@glaceon.social @Felthry@awoo.space it's a fun thought but yeah, most people in the US identify way more strongly by state than by country
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@monorail @InspectorCaracal @Felthry I mean US states are as big as European countries, so it would make sense
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@Felthry@awoo.space @noiob@awoo.space @monorail@glaceon.social if you're actually interested in that, I recommend reading up on the actual debate of the era around the writing of the Constitution and state rights
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@noiob @monorail @InspectorCaracal we've often wondered if the original idea for the US was to be more like how the EU functions.
It's a ridiculously large area for a single overarching government