Posted on 11/05/2004 4:20:50 PM PST by bourbon
MY MODEST PROPOSAL: THE U.S.A.R. By C. B. Shapiro I feel bad for the Red States.
Yes, they won the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court and most of the state houses. But they still can't have the country they really want because the last few Blue States won't roll over. So I am making a simple proposal:
Secession. Divorce. Splitsville.
Personally, I think we made a huge mistake not letting them go when we had the chance back in 1862. Well, no time like the present to correct an old mistake.
Then, they would finally be free to have the kind of society they've always wanted; church and state can be fused so they build the kind of theocracy they've dreamt of, with Jesus at the helm. Then the new USAR (United States of America Red) can ban books, repeal civil rights, persecute gays and have all the wars they like. They want prayer in schools? More power to them. They can ban abortion and post the Ten Commandments in every federal building in their country. Bring back slavery, if they want. We'll be free to live with our like-minded countrymen who believe in science, modernism, tolerance, religion as a personal choice, and truly want limited government intrusion in our personal lives. Why should each side be driven mad by the other any more, decade after decade?
Call the Culture War a tie and everyone go home.
Of course, we in the U.S.A.B. get the Gross Domestic Product, businesses and universities of California, New York, Massachussetts -- basically the whole Northeast and Northwest (plus Illinois and Michigan if they want to come along). They get Wal-Mart and Duke and most of the Nascar tracks. But they can feel free to import movies, TV shows, financial services, and defense technology. We'll import country music, bibles and Confederate flags.
The two countries will by necessity have open immigration policy: anyone who feels they are living in the wrong country can just move across the border, no questions asked.
Ultimately, why should I have to convince my fellow countrymen that Darwin may have had a point and that the word “liberal” is not equivalent to “godless communist?” And why should they be forced to live in a country with morally corrupt non-believers? I'll stay in the messy, free-thinking U.S.A.B. And to the U.S.A.R. I say…
God bless you all, and see you at the U.N
I wonder if he knows Lincoln was a Republican?
We could have split up in 1862, although not peacefully.
As a matter of fact, it dang near happened.
Boy they really are know it alls...smug as hell.
Who has ever said to bring back slavery?...hell not even David Duke or Pete Peters that I know of.
This Red versus Blue is really no contest if one looks at it seriously.
Folks in such cultural decline and with nearly all the urban multi-generational cesspools would quickly evolve into an Omega Man or Escape From New York scenario in short order.
They need us more than vice versa. We pay the bills for all the blight.
If you look at the blue state maps it is actually the blue cities not the entire state.
How's your wife btw?
It just dawned on me to ask.
Red states have the oil, the food, the minerals, the space coast, the gold coast, and 50 million more people than they've got, the largest army base, the largest navy base, the largest air force base, not to mention over 5000 nuclear weapons......
Blue states have wine, hollywood, no steaks, no potatoes, and no oranges?
Gee... sounds like a Fair trade. where do we sign? Would it be against the law to offer San Fransisco for sale on ebay?
On that basis the PDRTI (Peoples Democratic Republic of Turtle Island) will have all the crime, poverty, communicable disease, cultural waste, and most of the racism. Sounds great to me.
The left is about rights/sovereignty only when it fits their limited agenda (gay marriage/abortion/atheism/socialism).
Yes!! by county.
I live in San Bernardino county,Ca
It's all red
True. Any other time they say "states rights" is a code word for racism. Duplicity is inherent in their position. Maybe this will educate them a bit.
Admin, can you please remove post 22? Alaska isn't correct. Thanks.
I almost heard Geraline Ferraro say the same thing last night on Hannity, claiming the US would have nothing if it left.
If the U.S. were to split, exactly who would object? Neither side seems to particularly like the other.
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