Sounds like giving up

azstrummer — 9/29/2006 7:08:26 PM (archived)

Boy, normally I don't disagree with your ideas but it sounds like the Rodney King side of you coming out. ("Why can't we all just get along?") The problem is see in all this is that the other extreme has too much of a greedy and paranoid side to them. They won't be content to stay in their little Paradise. They'll want to take over the neighboring one.

It sounds to me like wishful thinking is a larger component here than an analysis of history. Splitting things up will split up more than just ideologies. It will also divide natural resources, transportation hubs, centers of commerce. Even though Katrina took out a huge geographical region with its winds, the US is big enough to absorb tremendous disaster and rebound quickly. When agriculture takes a hit, our industrial production helps to ease that and vice versa. You start segmenting the country and any downfall can doom a region and turn them towards anarchy.

If I didn't know better I'd think you were trolling a bit here.

Oh and by the way. I don't want to live in fucking California no matter how progressive you might be. Besides, I can't return. I've decided never to pay West Hollywood that parking ticket so I'm sure I'll eventually have a warrant out for my arrest. I've heard the Govenator's dungeons are horrid places.

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Why? - Bowser - 9/24/2006 7:03:09 PM
- re: Why? - Jim Dandy - 3/28/2009 1:13:15 AM
- A question directed at conservatives. NONE answered. - Bowser - 9/25/2006 9:17:09 PM
  - They've gotten their asses kicked in here to many times - azstrummer - 9/26/2006 12:09:55 AM
    - Asked and answered, your honor - FrankC - 9/26/2006 2:25:40 AM
      - It's only a partial ass-kicking, I'd say - Robert - 9/26/2006 4:53:28 PM
        
        Radicals - FrankC - 9/26/2006 6:33:27 PM
        
        "the Government should fear the people" - Robert - 9/26/2006 8:39:21 PM
        
        Hmmm, The Confederacy reborn - FrankC - 9/26/2006 8:58:25 PM
        
        I could live with it - Robert - 9/28/2006 10:33:58 PM
        
        So are you Robert... - Lee - 9/30/2006 6:43:01 AM
        
        I'm not sure our world is big enough - FrankC - 9/30/2006 2:22:06 AM
        
        re: I'm not sure our world is big enough - Robert - 9/30/2006 8:15:10 PM
        
        One world government - Tom Brosz - 10/1/2006 2:34:16 AM
        
        Planetary Federalism - Robert - 10/1/2006 2:47:13 AM
        
        And on representative democracy... - Tom Brosz - 10/2/2006 4:07:54 AM
        
        re: And on representative democracy... - Robert - 10/4/2006 4:53:01 PM
        
        I'm not sure that the example you list... - alcaray - 10/3/2006 6:24:36 PM
        
        Key word: "constitutional." - Tom Brosz - 10/3/2006 6:59:31 PM
        
        re: Key word: "constitutional." - azstrummer - 10/3/2006 11:43:53 PM
        
        National shame - Tom Brosz - 10/4/2006 12:24:51 AM
        
        re: National shame - azstrummer - 10/4/2006 3:27:14 PM
        
        re: Planetary Federalism - Tom Brosz - 10/2/2006 3:47:50 AM
        
        re: Planetary Federalism - Robert - 10/3/2006 1:38:32 AM
        
        Feel better. - Tom Brosz - 10/3/2006 4:08:04 AM
        
        Gee Frank, you're sounding a lot like me. - Lee - 9/30/2006 6:34:30 AM
        
        re: Gee Frank, you're sounding a lot like me. - FrankC - 10/1/2006 2:27:33 AM
        
        You could? I couldn't. - Mary Anne - 9/29/2006 1:49:40 PM
        
        Sure ya could - Robert - 9/29/2006 4:46:04 PM
        
        Sounds like giving up - azstrummer - 9/29/2006 7:08:26 PM
        
        Nah - Robert - 9/29/2006 10:22:25 PM
        
        You da man.... (n/t) - azstrummer - 9/29/2006 11:35:53 PM
        
        re: Sounds like giving up - REB - 9/29/2006 9:26:19 PM
        
        Pleasantly suprised - azstrummer - 9/26/2006 10:55:14 PM
      - The question was WHY? Got an answer? (n/t) - Bowser - 9/26/2006 4:39:58 AM
        
        Why? - FrankC - 9/26/2006 6:24:41 AM
        
        I'm with Frank: Why what, Bowser? - alcaray - 9/26/2006 5:11:05 PM
        
        " our unsatisfactory situation in Iraq is due to piss poor planning and blunders by Bush and company." - Lindy - 9/26/2006 2:47:25 PM
        
        You seem to get confused very easily. And often. - Bowser - 9/26/2006 6:41:29 AM
        
        Me confused? - FrankC - 9/26/2006 7:27:52 AM
      - Just strike me down Sire!..... (n/t) - RobVG - 9/26/2006 2:32:36 AM
        
        Illegitimi Non Carborundum :) (n/t) - FrankC - 9/26/2006 3:04:33 AM
    - It's hard to fight with one hand tied behind your back... - RobVG - 9/26/2006 12:15:52 AM
      - C'mon over.......the water's fine - Lindy - 9/26/2006 1:16:48 AM
        
        Can't, quite, capitulate.... - RobVG - 9/26/2006 2:17:14 AM
        
        re: Can't, quite, capitulate.... - azstrummer - 9/26/2006 11:05:54 PM
        
        re: Can't, quite, capitulate.... - Lindy - 9/26/2006 2:46:24 PM
- No matter how this turns out, they'll find a way to blame it all on the liberals. (n/t) - cjburke - 9/24/2006 7:20:08 PM
  - Only if no one bothers to ask the question, "Who's in charge here?" (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/24/2006 7:53:53 PM

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