I’ve been wondering about how well a lot of American states could function if they where fully independent states. I’m not thinking every state would be it’s own country but states banding together and becoming there own countries. An example of this California, Oregon, and Washington.
I’m thinking that kind of like the Fediverse it is easier to manage and do more the people on a smaller scale.
What do others think of this?
Sure, except you get all the same issues with countries not getting along, and now something the federal government could handle, like a space program, has to either be done redundantly by all the states separately which is wasteful and might render the whole thing impractical, or in some politicised clusterfuck of an international organisation.
There’s a reason the trend has been towards less sovereign countries and borders over time.