[iloveyouocean]

Waiting for the announcement of the formation of the 'Confederacy of Southern States' (I don't believe for a moment that Trump and the Republicans would hesitate to seize the opportunity and claim that it's simply 'parity'). In these times of hyper-partisanship, in the midst of a global pandemic, on the tip of a great recession or depression with untold economic hardship; I shudder at the potential for what politically aligned states banding together could lead to.

I hope I am overreacting, but my parameters for what I used to consider normal and possible have been shifted significantly and there seems to have formed a great open space of terrible possibility to be filled.

[sketchyj]

What about this inspired you to compare it to the civil war? Seems hyperbolic given states cooperate in similar ways all the time. It makes sense for bordering states to be on the same page here, especially given the erratic behavior exhibited by federal officials who will remain nameless.

[tmh79]

in the current moment, the "confederacy of southern states" is the federal government. I do not expect to see them different from a federal response due to their loyalty to trump.