As a non-American, the more i learn about US states, the more I realise that the country is more like a reluctant confederation than an actual unified country.
Yeah, it made sense when a horse was the fastest way to travel over land. These days? We’re stuck with a ridiculous government structure designed when no one knew how democracies worked.
Amen to that. It’s very stupid and backwards, but a whole lotta idiots think that the founders were inspired by their god (Jehovah/Yahweh/Allah) and that this kind of thing was handed down on stone tablets.
It tore itself apart in a civil war 72 years after its constitution was written, and the only reason why it didn’t happen again was because it got fat off of being the only power left standing after the world wars.
As a non-American, the more i learn about US states, the more I realise that the country is more like a reluctant confederation than an actual unified country.
Yeah, it made sense when a horse was the fastest way to travel over land. These days? We’re stuck with a ridiculous government structure designed when no one knew how democracies worked.
Amen to that. It’s very stupid and backwards, but a whole lotta idiots think that the founders were inspired by their god (Jehovah/Yahweh/Allah) and that this kind of thing was handed down on stone tablets.
It tore itself apart in a civil war 72 years after its constitution was written, and the only reason why it didn’t happen again was because it got fat off of being the only power left standing after the world wars.
Also the economic restructuring by both President Roosevelt’s. I suspect the US would’ve collapsed by the 50s without either of them.
Well it won’t be after the next one!
It’s very much like the EU and always has been. Everything makes a lot more sense in that POV.