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Agree, it was fundamentally built on vast amounts of slaves and loot plundered from conquered territories, which is morally reprehensible.
When you can name a character, you usually use your IRL name.
When you can name a character, you usually use your IRL name.
I disagree, most US states have very similar cultures and are closer to each other than the wider US is to other Anglosphere countries (which are still pretty close). The vast majority of the American population watches the same TV shows, listens to the same music, shop at the same stores, play the same video games, celebrate the same holidays, etc regardless of where they live. To the extent there is cultural division, it's mainly between rural and urban areas rather than state lines, which is why I seriously doubt the US is going to break up in the foreseeable future. Any state trying to leave would face a revolt from either their cities or rural areas depending on if they were joining the Confederacy 2.0 or the Liberal Resistance.Agreed. I'd argue that removing politics from the equation would make our country even less united, in fact. The Democratic and Republican parties are, for all their faults, cross-national institutions that unite people from across the country. Without politics, there's not even much we on the West Coast have in common with the blue states in the Northeast, or much the Deep South has in common with the Great Plains red states, except stuff we all already share with the entire anglosphere at large. America is simply too big to unite in any sense other than a governmental one, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it breaks up in my lifetime.