A grim but not implausible scenario from 2022, that is now more real than ever!
Mikhail Iossel
25 June 2022
A grim but not implausible scenario:
*David Atkins @DavidOAtkins:
“Next up: this illegitimate, stolen court will dismantle the federal regulatory apparatus on Monday.
This will push each state to have to implement its own wildly different environmental and regulatory regimes.
They’re going to literally destroy the country.
In a country this polarized, leaving each state to do whatever it wants while keeping Congress broken and undemocratic by filibusters, gerrymandering and big money in elections, means the country will inevitably balkanize. Originalism is a path to national destruction.
Blue states will be providing corridors and safe havens for women, LGBT people and others, in shadows of the 1860s. Companies won’t be able to have offices in some states. People won’t send their kids to college in certain states. States will be constantly suing each other.
It all comes down to the fact that the compromises the Framers made to get slave states on board with a union were bad ones and led to a civil war. Reconstruction didn’t last long enough. Jim Crow should have been demolished by force. This is the same shit, different day.
You can’t have normal folks coexisting legally with states run by vicious, cruel white christian nationalists, without federal regulations and rights guarantees, while the former are disenfranchised and their votes count for less. The country won’t hold together.
The ‘states should do whatever they want and the federal govt should have no power except what literally passes filibuster-proof through our broken, rigged, apartheid, and dark-money-drenched Congress & White House’ crowd, if they win, will literally destroy the country.
Once again, California is not going to follow Idaho’s rules. We’re just not. We don’t have to and our people deserve better. And if we have to Constitutionally protect basic social rights and set up our independent EPA because the GOP destroyed the federal govt, we will.
And because we’re the 5th largest economy in the world, California’s decisions will have a lot of sway. People from Idaho will come here to get abortions & we *will* protect them. Automakers will follow CA standards.
Originalists have no clue the Pandora’s Box they are opening.
Letting every state functionally be a country unto itself while leaving Congress rigged and broken is a horrifically bad idea. Republicans are literally destroying this country’s ability to function as a unified whole.”*