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[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You can't secede. There's no legal mechanism.

You've just got to try to preserve voting rights, and tighten up on gerrymandering, so that you get fewer of these minority-backed presidencies.

I don't know what you do about the damage said presidents have done to the supreme court. With sufficient influence in the house of reps and the senate they can be removed for being placed there to be a hack.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You can't secede. There's no legal mechanism.

With enough force, everything becomes legal.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

With enough force, everything becomes legal.

The difficulty would be getting enough force. They tried to storm the capital to stop the democratic transfer of power. There were maybe 10,000 people, a few armed with pipe bombs, but mostly they were armed with raw stupidity. One was armed with a bison skin hat, with not particularly sharp horns.

Not one bought a substantial airforce. Much less even one modern tank.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

a few armed with pipe bombs

yeah right. The deadly (for one girl, shot with no warning by a cop) insurrection.