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Originally Posted by Azure
Texas leaving the union is just more squabbling while a Democrat is POTUS.
Similar to Alberta.
End of the day, while special interests and lobbyists dominate the political agenda, I'm not sure much will ever change.
The Democrats will also never do anything 'big' about abortion because the demographic breakdown is not as clear cut as they'd like you to believe. As an example, wanting to ban abortion beyond 15 weeks is not a 50 / 50 split in yay & nays among Democrats & Republicans.
The other thing that might happen is someone like Cuban or Bezos runs for President.
I'd say Biden has been an unmitigated disaster. I don't think the country is at this point if Clinton had become POTUS. Leadership actually requires someone with leadership abilities, not someone who barely knows what day of the week it is.
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A more likely scenario if some areas of the state became stalwart Democrat territory would be for Texas to split up. As a condition of their annexation, they have the option to spawn off territory into new states and create 5 states (4 new states, plus whatever was left of Texas). Such a move could theoretically increase the Republican foothold in the region. You could end up with one or two Democrat states, but 3 or 4 Republican states. Hard to imagine that actually happening, but it is at least legally possible without violence.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ng-with-texas/