I know what I have written and realize the implications. It doesn’t mean that I happy about it though.
I served proudly in the USMC for many years. I have worked with and have known many great patriotic Americans of all colors, religions, and ethnic backgrounds. We were all green and we believed in America. That is the America I love. We are being forced into a balkanized nation by people who don’t know or care what will be the end result.
It is my sincere hope that we can navigate these turbulent waters in which we are now sailing.
As for people up north, I think many have already figured out what you are saying. However, there is still a very large recalcitrant group who have liberal social leanings and are very much put off by what they perceive as the moralizing of the Republican party. This combined, with an entitlement mentality, is the main reason they vote democrat. They will probably only figure out their reality, when the checks start to bounce and their neighborhoods begin to look like Detroit.
Problem is that people in Detroit haven’t figured that out yet. And I suspect they never will. Rationally speaking you’d think that Detroit would have turned red after decades of Democrat mismanagement. It hasn’t. It’s only become more blue. We’ve reached the tipping point - more people who want free fish than fishing poles.