Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
It's like this.
Far beyond a North/South conflict, in some states like Virginia, they don't even get along from district to district.
I live in Heathsville, and our town is directly on an electoral district line. Eastern Heathsville (pfft, look at me, acting like it's Germany or something) has a fairly Democratic population, whereas my part of Heathsville is conservative.
The thing is, winner-take-all system means that if a state has plenty of conservative districts but a huge enough city population, they basically get cities telling the rest of the state how to live their lives. This doesn't work! City people know next to nothing about living in the country, and in places like Texas, small segments of the state really hate living under conservative rules (hmmm, but not badly enough to leave).
This also means that when NoVA has like 1000 cases of Coronavirus (I haven't checked the figures anymore) yet rural Virginia in many counties has less than 9 cases, the entire state is under quarantine for months upon months while cities seem to have no empathy about the isolation and poverty the small towns are subjected to, and small towns can't relate to people coming down with a disease when everyone around them seems well. Again, this doesn't work!
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So let's say you've got a bunch of government people together in a room, and Donald Trump has said, "Okay guys, we're gonna have a consensus. Nobody is leaving until we come up with a new system for getting the country to get along." Of course, everyone now hates him, but they stay and argue it out. So they come up with several ideas:
Far beyond a North/South conflict, in some states like Virginia, they don't even get along from district to district.
I live in Heathsville, and our town is directly on an electoral district line. Eastern Heathsville (pfft, look at me, acting like it's Germany or something) has a fairly Democratic population, whereas my part of Heathsville is conservative.
The thing is, winner-take-all system means that if a state has plenty of conservative districts but a huge enough city population, they basically get cities telling the rest of the state how to live their lives. This doesn't work! City people know next to nothing about living in the country, and in places like Texas, small segments of the state really hate living under conservative rules (hmmm, but not badly enough to leave).
This also means that when NoVA has like 1000 cases of Coronavirus (I haven't checked the figures anymore) yet rural Virginia in many counties has less than 9 cases, the entire state is under quarantine for months upon months while cities seem to have no empathy about the isolation and poverty the small towns are subjected to, and small towns can't relate to people coming down with a disease when everyone around them seems well. Again, this doesn't work!
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So let's say you've got a bunch of government people together in a room, and Donald Trump has said, "Okay guys, we're gonna have a consensus. Nobody is leaving until we come up with a new system for getting the country to get along." Of course, everyone now hates him, but they stay and argue it out. So they come up with several ideas:
- The biggest control freaks want to retain the current system of winner-take-all.
- Even worse ones want the entire country to be united, so if a liberal president runs, the entire country is the same. In this way, the country is united, but many people who are outvoted are likely miserable.
- Other people want disorganized zones like CHAZ around the country. There's no way this would destabilize the country and make it easier for China or Saudi Arabia to take it over...
- Still others want to divide the country half (either horizontally or vertically), making a border line, complete with passports. The government is united under one president and major laws are the same, but the two lands are somewhat sovereign.
- Still others want California, Oregon, and Washington to be split physically into an island away from the US. It's a smaller area than half the country, but in return it is completely sovereign, and anyone who wants to move gets free passage there on the condition they don't come back.
- Still others want to just fight it out for control of the nation.
- The last group just wants to do away with winner-take-all and have the top candidates for Republican and Democrat run each state as governor (and the same for President). This means Hillary runs states she won, and Trump wins states he won (but Bernie gets no states, even though he won some because he wasn't a top candidate). Likewise, West Heathsville is run by Ed Gillespie while Easter Heathsville is run by Northam. People who want to move are given enough money to relocate their house.
