• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      They won’t have to.

      Their plan is to shutter things at the federal level. Blue states won’t have a say in the matter. Their goal is to shutter agencies like the Department of Education. Their goal is to close DE&I programs at the federal level.

      Sure, states can still do things like run a Head Start or fund their school meals programs if they want to. But how many states would be able to without the federal funds that currently support those programs? How many states would be willing to go through the effort? Or even able to?

      None of this would need the support of blue states. They can just gut the funding and watch the state level programs shrivel up on their own.

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          9 months ago

          Yes. Because then they can turn the army’s guns on the blue states with impunity. I’m pretty sure it’s why they float the idea among their base; so we hear it too, and it stays in our minds.

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      9 months ago

      police in california are already brazenly violating California state law by sending license plate tracking info to red states. expect more and worse.

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        9 months ago

        And for some reason California isn’t disarming and discharging them. The police there are acting as a hostile occupier opposing democratically decided rules.