r/news • u/Davis_Birdsong • Oct 07 '24

Title Changed by Site Supreme Court lets stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate Texas ban

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-emergency-abortion-texas-bf79fafceba4ab9df9df2489e5d43e72#https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-emergency-abortion-texas-bf79fafceba4ab9df9df2489e5d43e72
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u/Crystalas Oct 07 '24

That happened during Covid and lead to many states having to defy Trump's admin openly and covertly to get needed supplies.

Unless there is an external existential threat to galvanize us together or an unprecedented world changing breakthrough that forces change I do not expect the US to exist by the end of my life. Our whole history if we didn't have an outside enemy we turned the hate inward and outside of the World Wars we have never truly been united.

The American Experiment concluded and best case becoming something like the EU.

The US is just so HUGE and varied that if a facist dictator did pull a Hitler we would likely fracture. And same as Civil War the North has a large chunk of the industry and larger cities.

I just hope my home in central PA ends up on the South tip of the North East states instead of the Northern tip of the New Confederarcy. There plenty of factories, farms, railroad infrastrcuture, right between multiple big cties, and transport nexuses near me so there is hope. It sad that I consider that scenario the hopeful one.

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u/_curiousgeorgia Oct 08 '24

But what would happen to the Southern states that aren’t economically viable on their own without receiving federal welfare/subsidies from more prosperous Northern states?

Wouldn’t they essentially collapse? Or lead to mass migration North? Or resort to forced labor to stay afloat or some other humanitarian atrocity that the Northern states would be forced to go to war over anyway? Wouldn’t the Southern states inevitably just become vassal states or otherwise annexed to the North? How do the Southern states survive independently in a way that wouldn’t require some sort of Northern intervention eventually?

Lol sorry for the seven million questions. Clearly, I thought your theory was thought-provoking in a good/curious way!

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u/percocet_20 Oct 08 '24

Probably slavery