America drops to 46th place in Sustainable Development, behind Cuba, Thailand and other "third world countries"

Consumerism is counter to conservation.

So much of what we produce is pure garbage from conception. Junk mail, disposables nobody asked for, excess packaging, physical advertisements, planned obsolescent hardware, military industry waste...

What people want in a consumer economy is a readily available supply of surplus goods/accessible services that can be obtained/delivered as people realize they need it. What people get in a consumer economy is a manufacturing machine constantly trying to force-feed us shit we never asked for. Consumer items that are highly sought after become rare and expensive (housing, transport, education, healthy food). Consumer items that nobody wants get shoveled on us over our protest. We are not an economy of excess supply but of induced demand.

Red states be dragging us down.

Show me a red state and I'll show you a bunch of big blue cities. Show me a blue state and I'll show you enormous red rural territories. Even within the same city center, you can find enclaves of rival political ideologues - arch-conservative suburbs and LGBTQ friendly business corners - abutting one another.

Nobody is getting Nationally Divorced without the kind of ugly fascist purges common to post-invasion Iraq or Israeli-occupied Lebanon and Syria.

That would be fine if this weren't an international problem. If we split up then the new confederacy would be completely run by a few oil execs who would strip the regulatory state and start fracking and burning trash until their emissions rivaled the totality of the global south.

This isn't even considering the minorities, women and LGBT people that we'd be abandoning to the fascists. Liberal America's job is to drag the country kicking and screaming towards progress. We can't abandon that duty because they're kicking and screaming more now

Better to get rid of Democrats, they are still the largest obstacle to progress