I live in a blue state. Why should I even consider this red state delusion?
You should support it because it means that your state finally gets to stop funding all the red state agricultural subsidies. All the subsidies that go to their schools. All the subsidies that they get for living in places where natural disasters are routine instead of rare.
Let’s use California as an example. California currently sends the federal government close to $700 billion per year in federal taxes. They get back $80 billion less than they send in.
What if California just kept the whole thing? If the federal government only could ask for enough for the stuff it is legitimately supposed to do: military, post office, the federal courts, and paying back all the money we have loaned them?
Think of how much better a welfare system your state could build if they kept the money and did it themselves. No more court cases keeping them from doing what they want inside their state. They just have to follow the Constitution (so no making religion illegal, no straight up stealing land with no compensation to give it to a developer who contributed to a campaign).
It could be as expansive or limited as the people of that state want. No more one size fits none regulations from people who don’t live there.
You could also have cities have more power over gun laws. It wasn’t uncommon in the West for sheriffs to demand that people coming into the town “check their iron” and have the sheriffs department hold onto their guns until they left the town limits. No more SCOTUS overrides from red judges.
You want single payer healthcare in your state? Now you can do it. Want abortion up to active labor? Go for it. A guarantee protection for trans kids? Knock yourself out.
Each state gets to be its own laboratory of democracy. You don’t have to worry about what the red states think unless you decide to live in one. If your state decides to go full on socialist, so long as it stays within the broad lines of the Constitution, then the red states have no say in stopping you.
Stop thinking that DC is your nanny and start running it like the powerhouse it is.
I live in a red state. Why should I back this?
You are probably already halfway there but I’ll bite.
You get to keep the same tax dollars as the blue states. Want to use them to fund more charter schools, homeschooling pods,or the like? You can.
Want to be able to plant your fields without having to worry about the EPA breathing down your neck over the possibility you might disturb some rare bird that someone just thinks might exist? Sow as you shall. Just be respectful if you want to start a hog farm, okay?
That’s just neighborly.
Are you tired of failed schools? You now have the power to fix them. Tired of the mandatory hate-everything-America indoctrination camps on your state’s campuses? You can stop funding them. Sick of tenure protecting bad teachers? Fire them. Done with dead wood clogging the system? Burn it.
No more having to wait on FEMA and let them run (or rather ruin) everything when Mother Nature has a tantrum. Your state can take care of itself and even form mutual aid compacts with other states in the region. If Florida gets slammed by a Cat 5, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi can be there to help before DC can even program their GPS.
Want concealed carry everywhere? No more SCOTUS blues telling you no or federal circuit judges issuing pre-emptive injunctions.
Shackles off. Shoot to the stratosphere free of all the red tape!
I am in a purple state. Got anything for me?
Well, if neither the red nor blue pitch grabbed you, buckle up—this one’s tailor-made for purple chaos
No more being the guinea pig in the culture war. No more your state as the swing-vote battlefield where every election feels like Armageddon.
In a way, you get the best of both worlds. If your cities are solid blue with high taxes and generous social programs and you prefer the less is more red life, chances are that you can find a county like that. Or vice versa.
If the winner take all, every election is the last mentality ends, you guys have the most experience in learning to live and let live practicalities. You can have blue cities content to let red counties do their thing and might actually be able to get things done faster and better for all than those living in red or blue echo chambers.
I am just mildly jealous about that.
Where’s the explanation for yellow green?
Do we actually have one of those? Maine? Did you invite your friends from Prince Edward Island over again?
God, I thought we talked about this! Do not make me warn you about hugging trees and catching poison ivy again.
I like the idea but it has no chance of happening.
That’s true. It has no chance of happening.
Right up until it happens.
Look, if this was easy, then some Congressional member, someone with a Ph.D. in law, some Constitutional scholar, or a think tank would have spotted this and fixed it instead of leaving it to a bored, self-educated, polymath, multi-lingual trucker who has a passion for Greco-Roman history, a complete lack of reverence for convention, a background in tech and gaming, and way too much time to think while driving a fully loaded semi over our nation’s roads.
Yeah, this will be difficult. The solution is simple. Not easy, but simple. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the odds of success, I’m all ears. If you have suggestions for things to cover or add to this FAQ, the Transition page, or the Surviving the Chaos page, share them. But if you’re just going to tell me how difficult or impossible you think it is, take a number because I have heard it a few thousand times already.
Everything is impossible. Until it isn’t. They told Justinian what you’re telling me. He rebooted Rome and the Empire in the East stood for another thousand years.
I think you should get rid of amendments that I think are the real problem.
Update: I have added a new slate of additional amendments to be considered alongside the Reboot Amendment here. The first three repeal the income tax, direct election of Senators, and the Congressional pay amendment.
Everyone has at least one amendment that they would axe in a heartbeat. Red staters want 16, 17, and 27 gone. Blue staters want 2, 4 and 6 (for conservatives only, of course), 9, and 10 gone. Libertarians want half the amendments gone while Greens want a new Bill of Rights for Mother Earth.
Personally, I think the Third should go. Nothing bad could possibly happen, right?
This is a reboot. If your computer freezes, you don’t try to figure out which driver to uninstall or go decompile the kernel.
You reboot. You shut down all the programs running on top of the OS and drivers, clean /swap and the memory, reset the registry, and then relaunch what works.
This reboot is not a red state wish list. Nor is it a blue state wish list. This reboot is going to take both sides working together to pull off. I am already asking a lot by axing everything not in the Constitution.
We have proven that truly disastrous amendments can be repealed. If one or more needs to go, make your case. But don’t derail what might be our last, best chance of saving the system from an uncontrolled crash by demanding utopia. Perfect isn’t the goal. A more perfect and functional union is.
I read your FAFO slate. Do you really expect all of them to pass?
No, I don’t expect most of them to pass. Repealing the income tax, ending direct election of senators, and banning congressional pay raises will be hated by Congress. So will the campaign finance rule that limits fundraising to only people and businesses inside their own district.
I also don’t expect the state-splitting amendments to pass — carving up California to create “Dementia,” merging blue Washington and Oregon into “Discordia,” or the other boundary changes. They’re half joke, half a shot across the bow. The real goal is to start an honest conversation.
We need both the blue cities and the red rural regions. Blue areas want to keep experimenting with socialism. Fine. Let them form their own super-states with no red areas to blame. Red areas can continue with capitalism, free from interference.
If the blue experiments fail, people will want to move to the prosperous red states. With stare decisis gone, those states can require migrants to earn state citizenship instead of getting it automatically — and blue states could do the same in reverse.
Letting all of our territories go will create chaos in Guam and other regions like that.
Should the amendment pass, it would immediately grant all U.S. territories independence, but it requires a ten-year transition plan.
The amendment also creates a new legal category called a “protectorate.” Guam, Puerto Rico, and the other territories could remain protectorates and keep essentially the same relationship they have with the U.S. today. The only major change is that people born there would no longer automatically become U.S. citizens unless at least one parent is already a U.S. citizen. This closes the loophole that’s been enabling birthright tourism to places like Guam from China.
How can we end gerrymandering?
I don’t believe gerrymandering is an issue that should be solved at the federal level. That said, I think every state should follow these basic rules when drawing congressional districts:
- Districts must follow county lines — no splitting a county into multiple districts.
- A city can be split into multiple districts, but those districts must stay entirely within the county that contains the city.
- Alternatively, an entire city can be kept together in a single district.
I believe a balance between rural and urban representation is necessary to the continued functioning of our republic. Urban areas have unique problems that they need to solve without being micromanaged by rural areas. The converse is also true: rural areas have unique challenges that urban voters often don’t understand, and cities should not be dictating how rural Americans live their day-to-day lives.
Why not do this through a series of incremental, targeted reforms? Is a reboot of the whole system really necessary?
If we were still in the 80s or 90s, I’d agree with you that this is too radical, too chaotic, and could cause too many problems so incrementalism would be ideal.
The problem is that we have been trying incremental fixes for over 60 years. They either get watered down by DC or get repealed by the next administration via legislation, judicial decisions, or executive orders. Incremental fixes are what got us here — patch on patch until the entire system is a Frankenstein’s monster of spaghetti code and special-interest favors.
History is full of examples where tweaking things and going incrementally made things worse. The Roman Empire did this until Justinian had to take an axe to the whole thing and rebuild with the Codex. Doing this in steps opens up too many opportunities for special interest groups, lobbyists, and DC insiders to slip in language that favors them (like the way Congress exempted itself from the ACA). We can’t give them any chance to use the current system to hide behind because they are masters at gaming it to benefit themselves.
Want a quick, non-exhaustive list of incremental-fix-failures from just my lifetime?
- Reagan era tax cuts that were supposed to also cut spending
- Healthcare fixes that get hijacked by lobbyists and the big healthcare companies
- Clinton’s workforce reforms that got watered down under pressure
- Obamacare and its COVID subsidies
I would love to be able to fix things in a targeted and incremental manner. However, it’s been tried, it’s failed. It’s time to take more drastic action. I’m doing my best to ensure stability during the transition process and to suggest ways to lessen the chaos. If you have suggestions on how to do that, great. Hit me up on X @gkmasterson.
What about Social Security?
I get it — it’s a lifeline for millions. But it’s also a timebomb.
There’s no way to grandfather it or anything else in without the whole thing falling apart. Aside from that, the laws on it are riddled with pork, graft, and layers of spaghetti code that have turned a safety net into a black hole.
I hope that Congress gets off their rage-bait fests long enough to pass a clean and solvent version or that, if they don’t, your state takes measures to ensure that you are provided for.
And, if that fails, you will have to do what people have done for centuries before DC started promising otherwise: rely on your family and community to help you out.
But I paid in! I was promised! You slackers just need to… why are you staring at me like that?
Just aligning my mental crosshairs.
The program isn’t sustainable. You have known that since the 1980s. You increased your benefits, you raided the trust fund, and then you passed the bill to your GenX kids and called us slackers who just needed to work harder every. single. time we showed you that the math isn’t mathing.
We put up with it because you are our parents and we love you. But now the rug pulls you used to keep us scrambling while you gorged at the altar of Graph Go Up are affecting our children.
We are not okay with that.
We are not going to keep killing ourselves and demanding our kids do the same.
- No more NAFTA shaftings
- No more flooding the market with near-slave labor
- No more dotcom busts or too big to fail bailouts because you fear the market corrections you gleefully force on us.
- No more mockery that we’re a bunch of racists afraid that “they’re tekkin oure jerbs!”
It’s gone. We still love you but it’s now time for you to face the tough love you raised us with. We will not let you do this to our children.
What about the debt?
Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m not an economics expert. I know nothing about the debt other than that it exists. If any of you are actual experts in sovereign debt and Treasury liabilities and obligations, let me know ways that a reboot could happen without crashing the economy by instantly defaulting on our debt.
For my part, I think Congress could draft a law acknowledging it and agreeing to continue paying it on Day One post-Reboot to prevent this from being a crisis but I freely admit that this is an area I need someone to help me with.
What about our alliances?
Gone, for the most part. However, we can always renegotiate them from a position of strength, not weakness. Maybe we can take time to completely re-evaluate our playbook and consider if we really want to stay in Western Europe when it looks like the old Eastern bloc is more welcoming to being a beacon of our classical Greco-Roman heritage.
What about gay marriage?
You mean the complete waste of time and money that was the Obergefell decision?
It’s gone but the best part is that it was never necessary in the first place.
Look, there’s this nice shiny thing in Article VI of the Constitution called the Full Faith and Credit Clause. This clause applies to all licenses: drivers, professional, and marriage.
Pre-Obergefell, if a state (let’s dunk on my state, Mississippi) allowed for first cousins to be married and then they later moved to California which, for the sake of this example, does not, they are not suddenly unmarried.
You didn’t need any new rights. No treatise on human dignity because Kennedy felt poetic. A sledgehammer with “Article VI, bitches!” was all that was necessary.
My only remaining question is who owes who the apology. The law schools for doing such a crap job or the lawyers for not bothering to read the damned Constitution. Either way, I ain’t holding my breath for it.
Won’t this let everyone out of prison?
Not really. If you can find me an example of where someone is in prison on federal charges only that have no state law violations underneath them, I will want the details to be sure it’s true.
It’s the federal government that is rebooting, not every single state. Just DC.
But even if your claim is true, those cases can be retried and sentenced. Since we’re talking about people found guilty already, I don’t think double jeopardy applies. If that’s wrong, explain it since I freely admit that my knowledge of law is from history and Law & Order.
Lawyers need legalese because plain speech is too ambiguous. You shouldn’t deny them a useful tool for crafting careful legislation.
Fair point. The problem is that you lawyers have abused what should be a good tool and turned it into an exploit. You have given us a system that jails grandma for picking up an injured bird and taking it to a veterinarian because she didn’t know it was some rare protected species while some violent criminal who is seen on security cameras stabbing someone for no reason gets to walk.
If your wannabe modern-day priest caste would inscribe “actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea,” at the beginning of every sentence in your neo-Gnostic gospel of Law, then…
No, even then, I don’t think I would trust you. If the law can’t be explained to a 12-year old without twisting it into knots, then it’s probably not the great idea you think it is.
What about abortion and reproductive rights?
They are already being handled by the states, as they should have been from the beginning.
The biggest issue with Roe v Wade wasn’t that it was an idiotic decision that way overstepped the bounds of federal law. It’s that it created a single point of failure on a very weak foundation. The left had to freak out over every election because it might be overturned and the right felt like they had lost the ability to regulate it in their states as the majority there wanted because they couldn’t be heard over California and New York.
It gave the right an issue to galvanize around, forced them to start working on building consensus in many states, and politicized the one branch that was supposed to be neutral. It turned the Supreme Court and every appointment into a weapon. In some ways, SCOTUS appointment hearings were dangerously close to being a religious test for office which is forbidden.
That’s over. Now your state can regulate it or not as they see fit and you don’t have to worry about how someone five states away feels.
If you really think it should be a universal right like voting, then use the legislative process instead of doing an end-run around it by going to the Supreme Court.
What about immigration?
Well, this wipes out the current agencies and laws but what is in the Constitution is still there. The federal government still has control over the borders and who gets to be a citizen of the United States.
Yeah, wait, the birth right citizenship is still in there.
Yes. Intentionally.
It’s leverage.
Look, the blue states want to import everyone. Red states want a moratorium and negative migration. So let’s dicker.
Blue states, since you are so generous and love diversity, we will be happy to send all the immigrants to you. You can show us how easy it is to deal with them. In return for us stopping the deportations, though, you have to live up to your words and prove that you really are virtuous and that this isn’t the modern day version of the Slave Trade and Three Fifths exploit the South used to game the system.
That means that you agree that only US citizens count towards representation in the House. Immigrants who are only residents of your state and are not citizens of the United States will just have to trust in the representatives the US citizens in your state elect.
They can vote in your state elections but federal elections are going to have to be completely separate, run by the federal government, and will require proof of US citizenship to vote.
If you are just trying to game the system, well, we will just have to patch that exploit. It should have been done at the beginning and the ending of the slave trade and repeal of the Three Fifths compromise was a partial attempt but it is time to close this hole entirely.
You’re the one calling for a new Three-Fifths Compromise!
Nope. Just calling out the current one. Let’s get real, shall we? The Constitution counts all “persons,” citizens or not, for House and Electoral seats, inflating blue state power without those folks voting federally. It’s exactly what my racist ancestors did with the Three-Fifths compromise where Southern states got extra votes in the federal government by counting people who couldn’t vote. Originally, the South wanted to count all slaves as equal persons. It was the Northern states who insisted on counting citizens only. To get the Constitution ratified, the Northern states begrudgingly allowed some slaves (three out of every five) to be counted towards apportionment.
Sound familiar?
You over in the blue states love to tout open borders and diversity, but if it really is about humanity and not padding your votes, prove it. Agree to count only citizens for apportionment. No more free power boost from non-voters. If you won’t? Then yeah, it’s the modern version of the old Southern exploit. So we patch it.
If you’re mad because it “feels racist,” fine. Feelings aren’t facts. The parallel is the power imbalance, not race. Fix the bug or admit that you’re fine with it when it benefits you.
I’ll just refrain from mentioning that the real reason you blue states are doing this is because the demographic you thought you’d bought during the Johnson administration started doing better economically and deciding that maybe they didn’t need the Democrats — as the old story goes.
What if they just do amnesty?
It’s possible. However, given that the Democratic Party has pretty much proven themselves to be bad faith actors on this issue since the 1980s, they are going to have to make far more concessions than they want in order to get anything.
Amnesty these days would have to require that the border stays closed and that citizenship is granted slowly. Generationally.
Any amnesty would have to allow for residency within sanctuary states only. The current immigrants can live there and work there and only there (no remote work allowed). They can vote in local elections. They cannot hold federal offices or vote in federal elections.
Their children can move to and work in the entire country as residents only and only if they were born here and speak English. They can vote in local elections, not federal, and cannot hold federal offices.
The grandchildren get citizenship at 18 if they speak English.
If any immigrant commits any crime, they must be instantly deported and barred from returning. If they publicly declare continued allegiance or loyalty (not respect, loyalty) to a foreign government or nation, the same thing applies.
What if a religion tries to set up religious courts and rule according to their holy book?
Already explicitly forbidden by the Constitution and the First and Fourteenth Amendments. No ecclesiastical courts have any power be they Anglican, Catholic, or Muslim.
Representatives, judges, and executives can use their religious beliefs as a guide but they cannot enshrine them in law.
What about trans people?
If your state wants to allow it, fine. If not, also fine. That goes for treatment, participation in sports, access to private spaces.
Now, in the event of interstate sports, why not just do the simple thing and group people like this?
If you were born with a uterus, you are a Uterine-American and can compete only against people in that category. If you were born with testicles, you are a Testicular-American and can only compete with people in that category. If you were born with both or neither, you are a Hermaphroditic-American and compete in your own league against others like yourself.
People can identify however they want but we are not grouping by sex or gender. We’re grouping by reproductive organs identified at birth.
You are a racist, bigot, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamaphobic, fascist Nazi bigot who should die and I hope someone kills you. Or I think you are a blue haired Commie left handed leftist freak and feel the same.
In the words of a great GenX philosopher, I would like to present my rebuttal:
“Whatever.” — Squall Leonhart
Are you trying to launch a political career?
Nope. Not interested in working in politics at all. If nominated, I will not run and if elected, I will not serve.
How can I donate?
You can’t. I don’t accept donations and I never will. I’m running this from the sleeper bunk of my truck.
In the current climate, the minute I accept so much as a pebble, it all becomes about that. And God help us if there is ever even the hint of the tiniest edge of the faintest shadow of impropriety.
You can share this, though. Mirror the site if you want. Print it out and give copies out on the street. Hell, make merch you sell yourself with #RebootTheRepublic and keep the money. If you really like it, you can send it to your state legislature and your Congressional Representatives and Senators. If enough of you do this, well, we either get it through Congress or we get it through an Article V convention of states (34 to propose, 38 to ratify with no input from Congress and the amendment’s narrow scope that explicitly protects the Constitution and the current amendments shuts down the “runaway convention” fears).
I like your message and want to hire you to work at my media agency/think tank/NGO/fundraiser/political group/PAC.
Not interested. I make decent money driving, don’t have to go to meetings that should have been emails, and I don’t have to sell my soul.
I want you to come talk on my podcast/do an interview/come give a talk.
Might be interested so long as I can make it work during my few days of home time. If traveling is involved, it’s much less likely since I doubt I can afford it or even would have time for it. Four days off per month makes speaking anywhere difficult and I don’t know what I would say that isn’t already here.
I will not accept offers to cover travel or accommodations. I might do a phone call if I think you’re an honest player. If you are with any news organization, I would only do it when I am at home in Mississippi.
I have my reasons for that policy.
I have a question/concern not covered here.
Feel free to send it to me over on X (@gkmasterson) and then give me a few days to mull it over. If it needs to be added, I will.
Who are you?
I’m an author, gamer, historian, and geek who drives a big rig to pay the bills. I am just another average person with average concerns, wide ranging interests, and way too much time to think.
I guard my privacy because I want to be a ghost. I don’t want this to be about me. I want it to be about the idea. If this reboot happens, I won’t go to any parties, parades, or give any speeches. I don’t want statues of me or anything like that.
If it doesn’t, I will probably go fishing. For a month. With the rest of GenX who are tired of the crap and our Zoomer kids.
What is it you fear happening if this reboot doesn’t happen?
Go get a drink, a snack, and possibly a bucket because there’s no short way to lay this out and it will get dark.
I fear an uncontrolled crash of the entire system.
Most people think that the coming kinetic civil war will be set piece battles or brave protesters gunned down by ICE or terrorist attacks launched against red area grocery stores by Antifa.
Elements of those things might happen but they won’t cause the crash. They won’t help it and might accelerate it, but they won’t cause it.
GenX is tired. Many of us, especially those who work blue collar jobs, are just about done with everything. In quiet corners offline, where we can’t be censored or algorithmically punished, we’re whispering that we just don’t see the point anymore.
Those of us who have a home paid off are beginning to plan an exit strategy and those of us still paying off our homes are wondering just how we can lose them when the crash happens.
The crash I fear most is blue collar GenX, those who went hard for Trump, seeing him stymied, seeing feckless Republicans refusing to help us and knowing that, best case, the Democrats just don’t care about us and worse case, we might be on a list of people to be jailed, smeared, or conscripted to labor when they get back in power, and just quietly deciding the system isn’t worth keeping up.
If they can strip a billionaire politician of his Sixth Amendment rights and rewrite the laws in New York to ignore ex post facto, we blue collar folks don’t stand a chance.
So maybe we just stop rolling our trucks, maintaining the high voltage lines, checking the transformers at the power substations as carefully. Maybe we get sick and aren’t there to make certain the warehouse is organized and the shifts are covered. Maybe we take a fishing trip and let the folks at city hall try to remember where past permits were filed and the proper procedure for handling new title requests.
It won’t take many – just 10 – 15% of this group – to cause the vast and fragile infrastructure we have been quietly, competently, and thanklessly holding up to grind to a stop.
As that happens, more and more people will do the math and quietly decide that risking going to work is not a good idea.
Within a few weeks, with the missing labor and the missing institutional knowledge of the millions of tiny little details (which way what transformer needs to be torqued, which trailer has a busted hose going to the tandems, when a spike down a certain transmission line is a problem or not), means empty shelves, rolling brownouts, and difficulty getting anything done. Oh, sure, you can import or conscript all the warm bodies you want, but the 20+ years of experience?
That’s impossible to replace.
Inside of a month, you’re looking at permanent blackouts as spikes in levels knock transformers out of commission and lines start to fry. Unless you have solar panels or some other kind of power generation not reliant on supply chains, you’re screwed.
Current lead time to manufacture new transformers and power lines is 6 – 12 months assuming the blackout is local. When it is all across the Western hemisphere?
Years at a minimum. Probably decades and likely centuries.
People in cities will create gridlock trying to escape. Most of them don’t know what they need to carry and probably aren’t used to walking 20 or more miles. The cities will become mausoleums. Yes, there will be warlords and gangs running them but even a gang led by special forces trained men will eventually run out of easy food to loot.
They also will not be able to easily get the gridlock cleared before the diesel and gasoline they can siphon is no longer effective enough.
So I don’t give them very good odds, long term.
People outside the cities fare better. If they are in a rural area where agriculture is feasible, they may actually have a chance to survive. Provided they are willing to go back to subsistence farming using their own bodies because the refineries are not going to be active.
And provided they can weather the shock. The psychological impact of such a sudden shift in culture and the loss of electricity is going to devastate a huge chunk of the population. Suicide and death due to simply not wanting to go on will take many.
And, within a few years, communities directly downstream of a city will have to go into the city and deal with the unburied corpses that will be decaying into the water supply, bringing back diseases that will kill more survivors because modern medicine is also gone.
And this is just for our hemisphere. I’m much less optimistic for Europe and Asia.
I hope I’m wrong. I pray that I am wrong. But the signs are all there if you look closely at what people are doing versus what they tell pollsters.
The coming crash will be a series of cascading failures all triggered by the complete demoralization of the people keeping the system running.
Don’t believe me? It’s the same thing that brought down the USSR. Only there won’t be anyone who can bring in the supplies that will be needed. Normalcy and optimism biases will paralyze nations until it’s too late to do any good.
Humanity will survive, sure. We survived the Bronze Age collapse.
But the world we take for granted? It will fade into legend.
That is what I fear.
So, still want to bicker over trying to win short term gains? If so, cool. You can do that and go right to hell.
I’ll just go fishing.
That’s never going to happen! The government won’t let it! You’re just trying to scare everyone with threats of some kind of general strike.
You’re right. It won’t happen.
Until it does.
The government will be paralyzed, too, as many GenXers in the NCO and Officer ranks are torn between their oaths to the country and the chaos that will be washing over their families as the supply chains break down.
Not to mention the regular civilians who decide that maybe staying so close to a metropolis is not the best idea for survival.
There’s not going to be any general or coordinated strike. We’re not meeting in secret rooms planning anything. In a way, that makes it worse because there’s no leadership or spokesperson to go to for concessions. Just several hundred thousand random people deciding that they have been lied to and played for the last time.
Because once it starts, it’s going to cascade.
How can we prevent this without your stupid reboot idea?
I don’t think it’s possible. You’d have to convince several million cynical, burned out people who are tried of a system that has screwed them almost their entire lives and is now screwing their kids that this time Lucy isn’t going to yank the football away.
Neither party has any real political capital or credibility with GenX. Promises sound nice but we know how quickly and easily they’re broken.
How do you rebuild the morale of the demoralized people who have started to just tune you out because every time you speak to them, they believe you’re lying again?
I like your idea and want to know if you have others.
I do. I’m currently working on a “post-reboot” proposals page (edit: now live here) to get in depth on things I think could help fix issues like immigration, judicial overreach, jurisdiction on cases between states or involving the president. It’s going to be part of a discussion group I’m calling the GenX/Z Alliance. Check back for when I find time later to get it posted.