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| It's Time For The United States To Divorce Before Things Get Dangerous |
| 2018-04-12 |
| [The Federalist] "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..." ‐ The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 Divorce is hard, but it’s easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife’s car. It is long past time for an amicable divorce of the United States of America. There is simply no common ground with the Left anymore. We are now the couple screaming at each other all night, every night as the kids hide in their room. We cannot come together, but we do not have to live like this. The history of the world is nations breaking up and redrawing their borders. If we want to avoid this political divide turning into a deadly one, we should do likewise. Stop clinging to the past and acknowledge where we are as a country, not where you want us to be, not where things were when your grandpa was storming the beaches of Normandy. Where we truly are. We are a nation hopelessly divided. We are more divided now than we have ever been in our history. And before you start screaming at me about the Civil War, keep in mind that bloody conflict was fought over one major issue. In those days, take ten families from New York and ten families from Alabama, put them all in a room, and you’d find they mostly had the same values (and bad accents). Now, fast-forward to today and do that same thing. Those families have virtually nothing in common. We as a nation have polarized and separated from each other. Anyone who thinks this is a radical idea has an extremely narrow view of history. If you don’t believe me, go try to book a plane ticket to Czechoslovakia, or look at a map of Europe from the year 1600, then look at one today. See any differences? Borders move. Countries split and change hands. They do this for a myriad of reasons. Ours would be a major cultural shift toward the left and half the country refusing to go along with tyranny. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 I don't have any problem with us in Texas seceding. We already have one of the top 10 economies in the world. We are outta here, screw it all. My family has been here since 1812 with original Travis Colony. Ive got papers of being a new Texan. My Mom is a member of DAR; Daughter of the American Republic, And Daughter of the Daughter of the Texas Republic. We in Texas Can Fight >Damn straight!! URAGH!! |
| Posted by: texhooey 2018-04-12 23:55 |
| #12 I'd say the map of the country got redrawn in the 2016 election by the electoral vote. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-04-12 19:27 |
| #11 Good luck with the area around northern Idaho being part of Blue, or New Mexico being part of Red. We're divided because we've been deliberately divided by the media and the long march through the schools over the past several decades. Part of the solution would be to get ideology out of the schools and get back to teaching the basics, including civics and the history of western civilization. I have no idea how to accomplish that, given the current state of education, except to start over. Alternatively, get the Federal government, the teacher's union, and the textbook monopoly out of education and let the states work things out. To raise awareness enough to accomplish that politically, something has to be done about more balance in the MSM. You'll never get an individual outlet to be balanced. That's too much to expect and has not been the case historically. The MSM was simply turned over to the left without any resistance. What's needed is a balanced industry. The right needs to buy or start new news and media organizations which deliberately exclude leftists. |
| Posted by: KBK 2018-04-12 19:13 |
| #10 Keep the monuments and museums in DC but disperse the government. |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2018-04-12 16:30 |
| #9 Better to subdivide states. California could easily split in three or more. NY should split so that upstate and Metro are separate. That and push power back from Washington to the States so those making decisions are a little easier to hold accountable. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-04-12 15:36 |
| #8 That map is nonsense. I'll die before I allow Nevada to belong to such a county. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2018-04-12 14:50 |
| #7 Map has Minnesota as a "blue" state. Author's never been outside Minneapolis/St Paul, I'd guess. |
| Posted by: Slats Pelosi4109 2018-04-12 14:15 |
| #6 And then Eastern Washington state, California, upstate New York, and so forth and so on all seceded from the secessionists... Followed by Austin, TX going Blue and seceding... Madness. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-04-12 12:09 |
| #5 ...Houston, Mobile, Jacksonville, Katrina demonstrated deep drafts up to Baton Rouge, et al. IIRC correctly a lot of shipping got diverted through the Canal to the Gulf ports due to labor issues on the Pac coast. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-04-12 11:59 |
| #4 Countries split and change hands. They do this for a myriad of reasons. And nearly always accompanied by mass murder and destruction. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-04-12 11:55 |
| #3 Generally speaking, the blue states are on the east and west coasts. So, if we divided the country as this article suggests, the red states would be deprived of deep water ports. This is not acceptable. OTOH, if they want a war we have a pretty good idea who wins and who loses. The writer's claim that divorce is easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife's car is not necessarily true and she needs to know that. With the lawyers and the judges on her side, divorce is not necessarily the best option. I don't usually consider myself a war monger but I am not willing to let them have California. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-04-12 11:52 |
| #2 No. Please, no. I have federal rights and protections even though I live amongst commies. Don't I? . |
| Posted by: Chesney McCoy5914 2018-04-12 11:36 |
| #1 So, CA, WA and OR split off and form their own country. Does the remainder of the U.S. sign a mutual defense treaty with them, or just throw them to the ChiComs? |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-04-12 09:26 |