For #4 - Virginia has already had the property transferred back, It's called Arlington County in 1847.
District of Columbia retrocession
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| The Civil War of Wishful Thinking |
| 2021-03-08 |
| [NRO] ...I do not think the United States is headed toward a civil war — civil wars are too much work. But it does matter that the dominant American political fantasy of our time is a dream of civil war. The mass arrests dreamt up by Q and the massacres envisioned by its rivals may be exercises in wishful thinking, but what Americans are wishing for matters. So why this? One of the functions of conspiracy theories — and of the histrionic mode of political discourse more generally — is that they give us something to talk about while we are assiduously not talking about what is actually going on. And what is actually going on is, more or less, this: The two main currents of American life — the rural-religious-conservative and the urban-hedonist-liberal — have always been at bottom incompatible, but that incompatibility seldom was felt urgently when those two ways of life were in effect independent sovereignties within the context of a regime that was federalist, local, and customary. But the big changes of the 21st century — globalization, political centralization, and the transformation of cultures by the Internet — have all pushed community life in the direction of standardization and homogeneity: Where there had been hundreds of wildly diverse newspapers there is now a handful of likeminded technology giants; where there had been tolerance and even celebration of regional variety in both public administration and personal manners, there is now an exacting political and social puritanism, so vicious that it cannot even leave room for Dr. Seuss; where there had been a complex ecosystem of institutions and relationships, there is a series of crude symbiotic oppositional pairs: Donald Trump populism and Bernie Sanders populism, Fox News and MSNBC, QAnon and people who get their political news from Saturday Night Live. Whether that state of affairs amounts to a series of relatively trivial social rivalries or an existential threat to national coherence depends largely on how much the two tribes sincerely hate each other. And right at this moment, the evidence suggests that the mutual hatred is both intense and widespread. That’s good news for such entrepreneurs as Elizabeth Warren, the po-faced Jim Jones of punitive tax policy, but it is bad news for the country. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 irish rage boy, a better answer is to allow the blue states to join Canada and invite the central Canadian provinces to join the red states in the USA. Having said that, the Democrats will have a civil war between their socialist and corrupt wings and the GOP will win in 2020 and 2024 setting things more or less back to normal for another decade. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-03-08 15:53 |
| #8 not much left of the West: Idaho,Wyoming,Utah,Montana (kind of), N. and S. Dakotas,Nebraska,Kansas,Oklahoma and Texas. the rest are now RINO states (Ariz.New Mex.Colo.Nev.Ore.WA.CA.HI.AK) |
| Posted by: 746 2021-03-08 12:42 |
| #7 If H.R. 1 passes you'll get you lone wolf(s). |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-03-08 12:01 |
| #6 For #4 - Virginia has already had the property transferred back, It's called Arlington County in 1847. District of Columbia retrocession |
| Posted by: Trusting Civic4189 2021-03-08 11:36 |
| #5 I don't think dreaming of mass arrests is civil war, not if you truly felt they committed crimes and aren't just being arrested because they are the opposition party. The Q believe these folks are human-trafficking pedophile satanists after all. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-03-08 10:55 |
| #4 A radical rearrangement would help. Cede the west coast, excepting military access lanes, to Mexico and fence it off. Cede New England back to Europe. Move the US government to the central US, say Kansas. Allow 9 reps total from each state. Provide secure land lines from the US government to each state for congressional voting and conferencing. Cede the DC back to Virginia and Maryland retaining the museums and office space. Require that federal executive appointees reside in and operate out of the new federal capital. Whew!! |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2021-03-08 10:19 |
| #3 Ref #2: But that will not stop them, if the past 25 years are any measure. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-03-08 08:24 |
| #2 I think the alarm we are seeing from the left as more states end the lockdown charade is a sign of their realization that they are not going to have an easy time making all of America look like San Fran Nan's insurrection theater Washington DC. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-03-08 07:39 |
| #1 What worries me is a small collection of Lone Wolfs attacking Far Left or Blue Rhino Congressional types. Thus giving the Nancy-crats and excuse to use Biden's mindless hand to issue emergency orders to allow them greater controls. I would not put it past the Nancy-Crats to offer up a few Sacrificial Lambs by conducting such an operation to further their Socialist Goals. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-03-08 07:28 |