Colorado supreme court ruled that they can take Trump off the ballot, now it looks like California is trying to do that as well. Meanwhile, republican states are threatening to retaliate in kind.
This seems unprecedented for US, does anybody know what happens in this scenario?
Do I dare to dream of the breakup of the US?
Probably not quite yet, but it does seem like where things may be headed in the long run.
Such a dream would probably be a nightmare. Humanity already pushed its luck once after the destruction of the USSR when its nuclear weapons fell into the hands of unhinged right-wing lunatics and clowns with no sense of self-preservation, the same sort of misfortune wheel will spin again when the time comes for the US, only much worse because their media does its best to drive everyone towards aggression, xenophobia, loss of patience and attention span, propensity to factual and logical errors, and binary thinking.
The best outcome for us would be for the US to remain under a corrupt federal civilian government overseeing states with massively weakened economic and political power, that could be coerced into demilitarisation by international pressure and absorbed into China’s sphere of influence at once