Blue states and cities are going to become our Lviv but keep acting like that is not the fact.

Folks, we're in a war for the right to have the next presidential elections.

Blue states are the supply lines, the factories and the last promise of a free and fair America.

Ignoring the strategic reality is to sell our collective future to balkinazation.

Blue State politicians need to be writing policy to win the future in this landscape.

#USPol #Balkanization

So we've all heard about the Calexit movement...they're collecting signatures to authorize a ballot initiative for California to secede from the US.

I've since learned that other secession movements are gathering steam. The Cascadia movement wants Washington and Oregon to join with CA and form a new nation. A New York/New Jersey movement is brewing, and there's a campaign for a Republic of New England, to incorporate MA, VT, NH, ME, CT, and RI.

Interestingly, the Texas secessionists, who raise their heads every so often, seem to be quiet. And there's likely others that I am unaware of.

A Balkanization of the US is scary, to be sure, but at the same time, many have predicted it for a while. A common thread is taxation...not that taxes are too high, but that these states, which are among those that pay the highest in taxes, get little in return, and some are angry over what they feel is subsidizing the rest of the country.

Is it coming? I'm not sure, but if the country continues to destabilize, it may be inevitable.

Cheery thoughts for a Tuesday morning...

#Politics #Secession #Balkanization #Cascadia #RepublicOfNewEngland #Scary

We’re experiencing balkanization of civic religion.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/17/rewilding-of-civil-religion/

#storytelling #BodyPolitic #balkanization #American

Oh, goody. A #Balkanization app. Let's make sure we don't live in a community where we might be exposed to other points of views, or, horror of horrors, "them"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/oyssey-homebuyers-app-neighborhood-politics?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Just to summarize again for my own personal notes:

◾ Hachyderm IO: can follow Threads dot Net, has 500-character post-length limit

◾ Beige Party: cannot follow Threads dot Net, has 11,001-char. post-length limit

◾ Mastodon Social: can follow Threads dot Net, has 450-char. post limit, defederated by many indie Mastodon instances because of dislike towards Gargron (whether ethical or personal etc.)

◾ Mastodon Cloud: cannot follow Threads dot Net, has 450-char. post limit, defederated from many instances because of various distrust issues (large number of registered accounts, crypto/blockchain associations, refuse to be explicitly an anti-Nazi safe-space, etc.)

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#MastodonMeta #fediverse #balkanization #ComparingInstances #fz_thinkingOutLoud