I think he has stumbled upon the Dems’ Achilles Heel. That is one rag-tag mess of a coalition they are running with. It has to pull apart at the seams at some point. Unions vs. Enviroweenies, Blacks vs. Hispanics, etc. Will be interesting to watch Barry tap-dance to try and keep them all together.
If I had a choice, the latter. You can't fix stupid.
Isn’t Michael Barone the one who predicted a landslide for Romney?
Yeah, like he’s credible...
I think the only chance we have of not splitting up is to return to the federalist vision set forth in the pre-New Deal constitution, where most power resides in the States.
Absent that, open conflict is inevitable, in my view.
“Can we put Humpty Dumpty back together, or are we headed the way of Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia?”
IMO, status quo till the Congressional elections in two years. I don’t have any hope that changes will be any different then.
It actually would be a good thing to go the way of Czechoslovakia. They decided to peacefully divide into two countries and accomplished it without shooting each other.
This has confirmed my fears that we could very well end up in a new civil war.
We are beyond the point of no return.
Yes, the Repubs have some issues, but the “problem” is with the electorate, not the party. We have become “a nation of takers” (Google it) and those “takers” voted against the ones they thought were going to take away their sugar. 9M people on SSDI, 48M people on SNAP, countless still milking UE benefits, the fastest growing demographic are “the takers”.
So the cultural divide is really based upon the 47% that get government goodies. There is virtually no way they will vote for a candidate that pledges to address these issues. Peel off a couple of young liberal women with the abortion issue and the Bamster gets elected.
Someone on the NRO twitter feed last night wrote what politician is going to run on getting budget and entitlement issues under control? Only a fool would go back there.
And we know where this all leads, economic stagnation and possible financial catastrophe are in our future.
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I think it is probably time for an amicable divorce between the “two Americas”. If you look at the Electoral College map, you’ll see that the geography and idealogy line up very well to make this convenient. I’d be willing to leave the blue state I live in.
The “Red States” (How God fearing, Capitalist, Patriotic states ever got to be the “Red” states, I don’t understand), are completely contiguous (except for Alaska, of course). You could travel by car to every Red state, without passing through a Democrat state.
We could give the lefties, a 10 or 20 mile wide stretch on the Candian border, through ND, MT and ID, to connect MN to Washington State and a similar strip of land to on the Mexican border in Arizona (I’m sure AZ would appreciate the illegal alien buffer zone). Then they could travel to all their states without passing through ours.
We could be the friendliest of allies, and I think if we seperated, would actually like each other a lot more.
We can keep the flag, the military, God, Faith, Guns, the Constitution, etc. and all the other great things they hate. They can keep the food stamps, the illegal aliens, same sex (or even inter-species if they want) marriage, Hollywood, Washington DC, etc.
We’ll take half of the 16 trillion dollar debt, and pay our share off in 10 years or so, while their 8 trillion grows to 100 trillion over the same period.
After that, the world has 1,000 years of peace on earth. Evey man will sit under and tend to his own vine, and no man will be able to take it away from him.
Highly doubt we can put it back together. The country was more cohesive in the 1960’s than it is now. And it’s only going to get worse. Both sides might as well be from totally different planets. There is no common ground whatsoever.
We've passed the tipping point, where the immoral outnumbers the moral, the pagans the God worshippers, the takers the producers. Decline is inevitable.
Thank-you, George, Ben, Thomas, John, and others who gave us so much. I'm glad you're not here to see what your unique nation and government has become.
Tribalism/globalism.
“Can we put Humpty Dumpty back together, or are we headed the way of Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia?”
Dissolution. Finally.
which do you align with? which America do you want to belong?
which do you think the founders envisioned?
The PTB have decided, for their own reasons to abandon God and everything it was that made this country great, and the liberal followers don't even see it. My father in law is a great guy. I real salt of the earth, Christian type fellow who would give you the shirt off his back, and them some if you are in need. He ain't dumb either. He's a genuine rocket scientist with a degree in same from A&M that says so, and he helped put us on the moon back when. However, he lives in his own liberal world that I am absolutely incapable of understanding. We have no real common ground beside family. It's sad really because I'd like for him to see how thoroughly his party has abandoned God and everything He stands for, but his worldview just simply will not allow him to see it.
This is not an accident or happenstance that just grew organically in this country. We have been completely propagandized to separate us into two almost perfectly equal and opposing sides to make us easy to control. It's working great. Sadly, I don't see how we're going to escape from it without things getting really, really, really bad.
Neither. We are headed toward repression of the group currently out of "power," currently represented by denizens of Free Republic and "their ilk," or "our ilk," if you like.
Yes. A divorce based on irreconcilable differences.