Posted on 12/15/2014 4:03:01 AM PST by Kaslin
The July 4, 2019, ceremony marking the final dissolution of the United States of America was quite amicable compared to the anger and bitterness of the preceding five years. The 2014 election results created a map clearly defining Red America and Blue America, and it sparked a debate, unlike any in the last 150 years, over whether the United States should remain united. For many in the leftist coastal states their progressivism constrained by the overwhelming Congressional advantage of the conservative interior states the answer was, No.
As liberal thought leader Michael Tomasky wrote of the South, Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything thats good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment…. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats dont need it anyway.
Soon, it became an article of faith within the liberal elite that it was not only their party that did not need the rest of America. Blue America itself, they argued, did not need Red America, economically, intellectually or morally. It was not long until newly-elected Governor De Blasio of New York demanded a national convention to discuss a parting of the ways. The President, her health poor and her heart firmly with the Blue America, half-heartedly tried to stop the movement, but more and more high profile Democrat politicians joined the chorus. The President yielded and called for a national conversation on the way forward as separate nations. Red America, furious at her continuation of Barack Obamas rule by decree and interference in its affairs, agreed to attend.
Two years later, President De Blasio, elected leader of the Democratic States of North America, and President Abbott of the Republic of America, stood together on the platform on the border at St. Louis to sign the Dissolution Pact. The countries split the national debt and apportioned federal assets, while agreeing to temporarily share the currency. They divided the military (along with all nuclear capabilities), but signed a mutual defense agreement. There would be free travel between and through the new nations. We will remain good neighbors, President De Blasio remarked, Even if we are no longer brothers, sisters, or differently-gendered siblings. President Abbott politely maintained a poker face.
Of course, back home in the Blue Americas capital, New York City, President De Blasio was less charitable. We are no longer held back by the reactionary, racist policies of the past, he thundered. Together, we will build a new dawn of progress that places people before profits and promotes peace instead of perpetual war! Blue America New England and the mid-Atlantic seaboard, back through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the West Coast and Hawaii, immediately set to drafting a new constitution. It featured 216 new affirmative rights, including the right to a living wage, the right to abortion upon demand at government expense, and the right to define ones own life experience in terms of race and gender. Embarrassingly, the rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion did not make the leaked initial draft; they were hastily added, but there was no right to keep and bear arms. In fact, the first law the new Peoples Assembly passed was to confiscate all privately-owned weapons. The second was to legalize all illegal aliens, and the third to triple welfare payments.
Red America reaffirmed the United States Constitution. Then the Congress began a review of all existing laws, statutes and regulations, repealing thousands of them. It also limited social spending dramatically, making known the expectation that able-bodied adults would support themselves and their families. The resulting non-military federal government in Blue America was about one quarter the size of Red Americas.
The world was unsure how to deal with the new reality. The international elite and its lapdog media quickly took to portraying Red America with the same kind of venom as Blue American liberals. President De Blasio was taped at a private confab at the United Nations which remained in New York telling the foreigners that Blue America, feels a greater kinship to our progressive friends in Europe than those redneck, racist, Jesus freaks next door.
Red America stopped paying its UN dues and sent John Bolton to be its ambassador. After Israel, Red America became the most investigated and censured of any UN member state.
Blue America had little use for the military it inherited. Though the Pact had stipulated that both new nations would maintain a certain level of combat readiness, in Blue America the services were first in line to be cut. Forced to meet Americas defense needs alone, Red America slashed non-military spending and instituted two years of mandatory military service for every citizen as the only way to meet the need for manpower.
Many left Red America, some to avoid the draft and a larger number to collect the enhanced welfare benefits Blue America was giving away. Yet, many more came in from Blue America. By casting off useless regulations and cutting taxes (Blue Americas Fair Share Act increased the top income tax rate to 74.5% on earnings over $250,000), Red America unleashed a whirlwind of economic activity. Red America, already prosperous, grew even richer.
Fracking was outlawed in Blue America; Red America became the worlds number one petroleum exporter. Blue America laws banning nuclear and coal power led to the Kentucky Line of coal plants running parallel the states northern border with Blue Ohio, selling Blue America the power it refused to generate itself. The ban on GMO crops and many pesticides cratered Blue American food production, a void Red American farmers were happy to fill. All the while, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta and other cities grew their own tech and entertainment industries built on refugees from Silicon Valley and Hollywood looking for an environment where success was not penalized. Red America began to supply itself with what Blue America used to provide.
Blue Americas deficit exploded even as Red America balanced its budget, per the one new amendment it had added to the Constitution. But Red Americas budget was strained when the nation had to send its military to support Israel after the Jewish state came under massive attack for destroying Irans nuclear weapons program. Blue America not only refused to assist, but refused to let Red forces use its bases or ports. The rumors that Red American pilots in B-2 bombers and F-22 fighters flew many of the original anti-nuke missions over Iran alongside the Israeli Air Force were never confirmed.
With its economy slowing to a standstill, and riots erupting in Chicago and Philadelphia, the liberal ruling elite found itself a convenient scapegoat for Blue Americas woes its neighbor. Red plants pollute our skies, Red corporations exploit the land, and Red bankers steal our wealth! Vice President Warren charged. We need to fight back against the Red wreckers!
The middle class and job creators were abandoning Blue America for opportunities in Red America, and they were taking their money with them. Hundreds of billions of dollars flowed out of Blue America into its neighbor. Frustrated by Red Americas refusal to provide banking information on these tax cheats or to allow Red tax officials to collect unpaid taxes deposited in Red banks Blue America breached the Dissolution Pact by outlawing the free transit of people and currency into Red America.
Red America was hardly blind it saw the trends long before Blue America would admit to itself that it was headed toward disaster. Red America expected the migration and had already ensured that Blue newcomers would not be allowed to vote into effect the same liberal policies they had abandoned by requiring all aspiring citizens to serve their military obligation before being allowed a ballot. Few did, and the Heinlein Act succeeded by ensuring that every voting Red American citizen had skin in the game.
When Blue America broke the Pact by securing the internal borders and barring its citizens exit, Red America acted quietly. Within 24 hours, its forces were manning the border too, turning back every truck and train carrying food or fuel into Blue America. At the same time, every power station feeding Blue America went offline. Then Red America waited.
It took 12 days, seven less than President Abbotts National Security Council had estimated, before President De Blasio used the hotline to call and cave. There had been a lot of talk in the New York Times and other Blue media about surviving on alternative power and utilizing green growing techniques in urban spaces to meet the countrys energy and food needs. But it was early November, and it was cold. The grocery store shelves went bare with terrifying speed. The limousine liberals would always be warm, well-fed and safe in their gated communities, but no one else would be. The lie that was the liberal promise was there for all to see.
Sure, Mr. President, we can talk about going back to how it was, President Abbott said gently. Youll be honoring our deal from here on, right? Good. Oh, and Im going to need you to do one more thing for me. No, its nothing too big. Just an apology. By you, on live television, with no hedging, about how sorry you and your friends are for those unkind things you said over the years about us redneck, racist, Jesus freaks who feed you, fuel you and keep your sorry asses safe. Oh, Im serious as a heart attack. Well, Ill look forward to watching it. Good-bye now, and God bless yall.
“I believe some parts of blue states would ask red American if they could join...the small towns of New England for instance...”
Large swaths of California, Oregon and Washington too. The large population centers are liberal. The suburban and rural areas are conservative.
The piece actually addresses that: if you want to come over, become a citizen and vote, you need to provide two years of military service first.
Most Libs crossing the border aren’t going to do that.
Ugh, not this meme again.
The great bulk of the expenditures in the those states receiving the most federal monies are military -as they have one or more bases in them.
Other states that receive a great deal of return are those with vast swaths of federal land — often overlooked. Or conveniently overlooked?
Where can I join the South Ohio Militia fighting to split the state and bring the southen part and most of Indiana into the Red States of America? We'll even call ourselves North Kentucky and drop the letter G from the ends of words if that would help us joinin' y'all.
I can’t imagine Indiana wanting to go with Blue America and Illinois south of I80 and west of I39 would want to be in Red America also.
If it did happen, the results would be very much as described in this fantasy. The "Republic of America" would become an economic powerhouse and a bastion of liberty, equality, and justice for all--i.e. The American Dream.
One sine qua non would be mandatory at the time of separation: The strict regulation of immigration into the "Republic of America".
I particularly liked this part:
"Blue Americas deficit exploded even as Red America balanced its budget, per the one new amendment it had added to the Constitution."And this:
"The lie that was the liberal promise was there for all to see."
The lie that is the liberal promise is there right now for all to see. Those who want to see the truth already see it. Those who don't probably never will.
Roads, ag subsides, and welfare.
Roads are a big chunk of it. A state like say, Nebraska, doesn’t have the road fund to keep I80 up to code.
Your “let” is the key word. All will depend on if we let them let us. I think not.
This story could play out without any official secession necessary, all that is required is for us to practice States Rights.
Prolly not for long. Those dangling reparations will look mighty tempting.
Or Ohio. Or western PA. Or upstate NY. Blue America would end somewhere east of the Appalachians.
No. Rear-view mirror tunnelvision.
“The bad guys would still be setting up abortion boats off the coast of Louisiana.”
Boats sometimes sink. . . or so I’ve been told.
There ya go!
I'd also like to see a breakdown of red communities versus blue communities, in both blue and red states, to see if there is a similar correlation in the different dependencies.
That’s exactly right - if each state asserted its rights over the fedgov, then no secession would be necessary.
However, that’s the whole issue, is it not?
They will not “let” the states assert their rights to avoid a secession solution, so secession (or Art V) is necessary.
the free states would certainly have to place SEVERE restrictions on Constitutionality of any gov’t actions, especially taxing and spending, in order to prevent the whole thing from happening again in the free states.
The main problem we have in Western PA is Allegheny County. It has a very large senior population that will vote democrat until they die. Then there is the union contingent that still can’t figure out why all the steel mills went belly up. All in all, it is a heavy democrat stronghold. Once you literally leave the county line, it is conservative (with some dem’s sprinkled about that left their utopia county behind).
There is information about methodology at the page. I agree that can significantly impact things.
However, it seems intuitive that states with higher incomes will on average pay higher income taxes and states with lower incomes will receive more transfer payments.
If somebody wants to put together what they think is a more fair comparison using better methodology, I’d like to see it.
Me, I don’t have the time or expertise. :)
Soon the Socialist Democratic Blue States of America may find out what life is like without the South. :-)
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