Do the hard work
There’s more rumblings of secession in political spheres. Texas legislators introducing bills on “Texas’ Independence”. Sitting members of congress talking about “national divorce”. Mostly from the right, but then folks on the left laugh and say how nice it would be to not have to worry about those red state yokels.
People who talk like this - in terms of "red state" and "blue state" and a "national divorce" - on both sides of the aisle are playing into the hands of the corruption they claim to want to get away from. Billionaire criminals who accumulate power want the people to fight each other and squabble over scraps, while they capture our institutions and continue to build fortresses around themselves to keep us out. They continue to operate with impunity, while we cower in fear, die in pandemics, drink the water and breathe the air they poisoned in the name of profit.
https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1265662859763204096
“There is no such thing as a 'red state' or 'blue state'. All are purple states. There are predominantly Dem or GOP *governments*, but they don't necessarily reflect the culture on the ground due to gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. They want to break up the US into parts and then profit off the wreckage, à la the Soviet Union, and so they need to compartmentalize it. One way to do that is to harden and weaponize these categories of 'red' and 'blue.'"
When you cheer the "red state" antics of succession, you are condemning the vulnerable in that state - non-white, non-christian, women, children, mentally ill, elderly, disabled, etc - to regressive politics and abuse. The federal government may be corrupt in many ways, but many of our safeguards of liberty only exist because of federal protections trumping state systems of repression. Our systems aren't perfect, but if we continue to do the hard work of democracy and fighting for each other, we can reform and improve. That seems a better way than dissolution and abandonment.
