Why should progressives work toward disunion after a bad midterm outcome if that happens?
1. Because the federal government is no longer our ally but has been transformed into our enemy over the last forty plus years. The Supreme Court is now totally against us. The Senate, because the seats are allocated by state, has become either useless or destructive, depending on the elections every two years. Gerrymandering has made the House unrepresentative of the population. The presidency and executive branch will be useless once the Supreme Court is done completely tying their hands.
2. Therefore state governments are now our top level of remaining good government. Some state governments are horrible, others are good. We are fortunate so many of our states are clearly either one or the other rather than being swing states. This is why disunion is practical and do-able.
3. The main argument against disunion is now moot. I am referring to the argument that the federal government is what we depend on to prevent the bad states from harming the citizens within who are against their policies. These are the citizens of the bigger cities. Since the federal government is no longer our ally we can no longer depend on it in this way.
4. So our blue states must throw off the control over them of the existing federal government, and move it’s functions over them to a new government that is not against them. The red states will do what they want, since we no longer have any power via the existing federal government to limit the harm they do to their citizens. At least after disunion those citizens will have somewhere to run to, once we have new good federal governments running blue states.
