Opinions - USA - How would you feel about a real life confederacy? (please read)

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The post about the legislation for legalization of weed brought this up to me. How would you feel about having a Confederacy instead of a Federacy? Think state's rights; the people get to vote for the land they live on and which is closest around them. The idea is that our states would have a constitution almost exactly to the one we have now. Now each state could make thier own ammendments and be almost polar to the state next to it. One of the great ideas they said back in the mid 1800's is that if you don't like how the laws of a state are in the confederacy you can simply move to a state that fits you better. I think our country would almost certainly be divided into states based squarely on the personality of the people living there. Of course there would be a National President but more of a guide that could help with policy and uniformity for things that should be regulated the same in each state. That and as president he would be executive in command of all the states militias and a confederated army with the idea that although each state more closely resembles it's own country with it's own culture, people, and ideas, that at the time of war or if one state was attacked we would have a federally ran army backed by state militias to help and protect our neighbors.

Think how much more important every vote you made would count.

Think how much seriously an issue brought up by you would be looked at.

Think of how much freedom the people could instill in a state.

Now there would definitely be issues at the national level at aggreeing for things if we had a national congress but there could be bills that might make all the states "play nice" with each other to run a sufficiently smooth economy and trade.

I hate racism and hated the idea of slavery but that's gone and never coming back but in the civil war when federal soldiers's asked captured prisoners why they're fighting and dying for the black man and why they won't just give up slavery they replied "Why can't you yanks just leave us alone? We just want to live our way as much as you want to live yours".

So anyways fellow posters how do you feel about state's right's and an actual working confederacy where people like us with the same views could live in the same state or region an live how we want to live?

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Just thought I'd bump this by saying that California has been doing a good job breaking off from Federality but it's a huge state with enough resources to run itself. Also most of the military installations are there so if there ever was a violent succession California itself could keep the war frozen cold because it does have a huge nuke stockpile too. That brings another question. Would you want to do this temporalilly by slowy taking down federal power or if enough people revolted would you be down with stopping negotiatons and just succeeding. DC would never try and fuck up America with weapons either and maybe a shotless revolution could change this unbalanced power that DC holds over all of us.

Sometimes I think the territories of Puerto Rico and American Samoi have it right and they don't care that they can't vote for the next US president and I think that's because we set up our territories almost like a confederated state. They can vote for their local leaders and we don't impose a ton of shit on them.

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Good topic. Very debatable and engaging.