• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    If the union doesn’t provide any benefits and only costs money and prevents your state from functioning as well as it could and the union only makes solutions harder to solve … why stay in the union?

    States stay together because of mutual benefit, not because of a document or promises.

    And you could force a state to stay in a union by force but the cost of doing that far outweighs the benefits of a peaceful union.

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          If memory serves right the person you are responding to is probably British. Or at the very least I don’t think they are American, so don’t take much of what they have to say particularly seriously.

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            If they are british I hope that they are paying attention and doing what she can to keep the UK from following in our foot steps even farther.

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      See my other response to peregrin5 but in addition you’re assuming rational actors all around. Actual reality is far more messy with many of those involved making decisions based more on feelings than any in depth reasoning. States stay together because there’s no obvious alternative. There’s no mechanism for a state to leave the union and doing so requires solving many problems that have no obvious answers.