Can it include making America “not America”? Locally, most of us are okay and we’re not out shooting our neighbors despite having Harris or Trump flags. We get into trouble nationally because we all want to force the superiority of our local notions on all of you horrible people that live somewhere else and don’t do things the right way. People like to pretend that we’re a single nation, and we’re not.
So, you know – stop doing that.
I don’t mean re-forming the country under a new Articles of Confederation with 50 states, but something both less radical and more radical based on our internal nations. For example, the nation that might be formed from Michigan, Wisconsin, maybe Minnesota, probably the part of NY that’s not NYC, maybe parts of New England… we’ve got a lot more in common than Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, which might form their own nation.
Seven to ten of these national regions become countries. And there’s no reason we can’t form a single currency a la Europe, have open borders, have shared product standards, etc. We simply stop trying to own each other.