I actually think we're bogged down in the quagmire that the US got rid of early. A federal EU would be so, so great but holy Jesus we'll never, ever get there and that's a beautiful thing in it's own way because I love that I can travel for an hour and be in a totally different culture. It happens in the US too but over broader geography.

Still I actually think America will also prevail against this moment

Of that I have no doubt, friend. I've spent a decent amount of time over there and I'm very fond of the place and the people. The angry have the microphone at the moment but it'll pass. I can see it coming. I hope you do too.

I've been closely looking at the correlation between 1933 Germany and modern day US and there is a horrifying amount of correlation, but you have stronger safeguards than you think, despite all efforts for the current administration to replicate the Nazis. The first amendment on it's own could save us all.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah it didn’t really matter too much how different our states were before mass industrialization but the entire 20th century was basically wrangling the different states into the America we know today. And still we are fighting rogue states that do things like imprison women for miscarriages…

One of our greatest weaknesses currently being exploited is we didn’t really actually solve many of these issues on paper…we just have a common law system and trust the people elected to not stray too far from accepted norms or we’ll end up in court.

Thankfully we have a significantly empowered and fairly independent judiciary but that’s basically the only thing in their way right now besides the states themselves.

So I’m actually fascinated to see what legal solutions you all get to the federalism and army problem because ours is currently being tested to the absolute brink of failure