• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Some countries are simply not cut out for democracy

    I think the U.S. is too large with too many cultural differences by region to maintain a democracy in the long run. Ideally we would balkanize, with the blue states going their own way and forming their own democracies. Northeast blue state democracy. West coast blue state democracy.

    I have no interest in continuing to try to maintain a democracy with low IQ fascist domestic terrorists anymore. It clearly isn’t working.

    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      While I can easily imagine the USA splitting up, the fascists are in every community though.

      I like the quote from Sontag

      10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. / Susan Sontag

      The problem with avoiding the fascists is that they are always everywhere at a low percentage; and a good society requires the equally low percentage of decent persons to convince the vast majority of people to not go rogue.

      This requires good governance in local areas; and that is a finicky thing indeed. If the USA splits up, who knows how that goes? I would not put money on any region being bad or good in two generations