[gapan]

> States should come together with their neighboring states to start passing identical model legislation for this sort of stuff...

Yes! Make a union of states! How should we call that? States Union... Union of States... United States! Yeah, that should work.

[bee_rider]

Getting ~340M people to agree on anything is too hard, and now a good chunk of us seem to think the government can’t do anything productive at all. IMO, it would be nice to have an in between layer to do bigger things.

[brewdad]

Sure. But the idea was to have neighboring states pass matching laws. Oregon borders Washington. Washington borders Idaho. Idaho borders Montana…etc.

At some point it makes more sense to pass such a law at the federal level since we end up there eventually either way.

[ultrarunner]

Who says you have to have 340 million people agree? Congress's approval rating hovers around 20% for years and years— they haven't been interested in the will of the people for a long time.

[sebastiennight]

They wouldn't be "united" in many things though.

Sounds more like a... Confederation? of states. Or maybe... a Confederacy?

[mathiaspoint]

The US would make a lot more sense if it split up between two or three different countries. There's a lot of stuff in US politics which people feel strongest about but are absolutely mutually exclusive.

I think it's going to happen one way or another and the most peaceful way to do it would be sooner rather than later.

[bee_rider]

We’re better as one country, we just need a France or Germany sized organizational unit that can do interesting projects but is still small enough to be agile.

[ethbr1]

We tried that. It didn't go well for any involved.

[fuckaj]

Or Balkans?