Personally, I am hoping the United States we know dies, and is replaced by something else. Maybe a balkanization, or perhaps an remake of the US.
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If I were the god-emperor, I would like the US to be split into four major regions, each with their own judiciary, military, executive, and legislative branches. Each of these territories submit representatives to a national body that creates a common framework for the things all the regions agree upon, but otherwise, the regions are basically super-states.
The national government could have something like 53 justices total. Each region sends 13 justices - 3 judiciary, 3 military, 3 legislative, 3 executive, and 1 to represent the current president of a region. The national president also has a single justice to represent them. By having so many justices of different backgrounds and from competing backers, we can keep an atrocity like the current supreme court from re-emerging. Especially if there are term and age limits, and remove presidential justices once their president has left office.
There are other ideas rolling around in my skull, but the gist of it all, is that we should make it much harder for anyone to establish themselves as a permanent and singular authority.
I think the two arrangements are a trade off. Many smaller states that make individual alliances would be able to set their own agendas and law easily - but that becomes a messy patchwork, that might not be able to compete in big affairs. A national government beholdened to only itself is organized but autocratic, and won’t have much leeway for social evolution.
I figure that having three mainland regions and an fourth region to represent all exterior territories would allow for checks and balances, while still allowing individual people to have largely familiar laws and customs to follow. If a particular region sucks at something, the other regions would have enough influence to convince people to call those regions home.
For example, say that Middle America is a Christofascist hellhole that bullies LGBTQ+ folk. Having a national framework that allows citizens to freely migrate to other regions would allow queer people to pick up stakes and leave, without needing passports nor permission to do so. A patchwork of individual states would make it much harder to get around.
Reasonable. I mostly want my relatively progressive area to be free from the baggage associated with places like the middle America you’ve described. Other folks welcome of course!
IMO, a big problem is how to let people pick up stakes and find a place they want to call home. Assuming that the USA we know is replaced by a overhauled version, universal income and universal systems would be key to that.
Moving to a new place is expensive and fraught with complications - so having guarantees of a livable income, food, free basic shelter, healthcare, and so forth, would allow people to explore the land to find their better future.
Personally, I am hoping the United States we know dies, and is replaced by something else. Maybe a balkanization, or perhaps an remake of the US.
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If I were the god-emperor, I would like the US to be split into four major regions, each with their own judiciary, military, executive, and legislative branches. Each of these territories submit representatives to a national body that creates a common framework for the things all the regions agree upon, but otherwise, the regions are basically super-states.
The national government could have something like 53 justices total. Each region sends 13 justices - 3 judiciary, 3 military, 3 legislative, 3 executive, and 1 to represent the current president of a region. The national president also has a single justice to represent them. By having so many justices of different backgrounds and from competing backers, we can keep an atrocity like the current supreme court from re-emerging. Especially if there are term and age limits, and remove presidential justices once their president has left office.
There are other ideas rolling around in my skull, but the gist of it all, is that we should make it much harder for anyone to establish themselves as a permanent and singular authority.
What about an EU type of alliance between states instead of a federal government? Seems like it could be far more equitable
I think the two arrangements are a trade off. Many smaller states that make individual alliances would be able to set their own agendas and law easily - but that becomes a messy patchwork, that might not be able to compete in big affairs. A national government beholdened to only itself is organized but autocratic, and won’t have much leeway for social evolution.
I figure that having three mainland regions and an fourth region to represent all exterior territories would allow for checks and balances, while still allowing individual people to have largely familiar laws and customs to follow. If a particular region sucks at something, the other regions would have enough influence to convince people to call those regions home.
For example, say that Middle America is a Christofascist hellhole that bullies LGBTQ+ folk. Having a national framework that allows citizens to freely migrate to other regions would allow queer people to pick up stakes and leave, without needing passports nor permission to do so. A patchwork of individual states would make it much harder to get around.
Reasonable. I mostly want my relatively progressive area to be free from the baggage associated with places like the middle America you’ve described. Other folks welcome of course!
IMO, a big problem is how to let people pick up stakes and find a place they want to call home. Assuming that the USA we know is replaced by a overhauled version, universal income and universal systems would be key to that.
Moving to a new place is expensive and fraught with complications - so having guarantees of a livable income, food, free basic shelter, healthcare, and so forth, would allow people to explore the land to find their better future.