Posted on 04/10/2018 9:00:07 AM PDT by fwdude
“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” — The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Divorce is hard, but it’s easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife’s car. It is long past time for an amicable divorce of the United States of America. There is simply no common ground with the Left anymore. We are now the couple screaming at each other all night, every night as the kids hide in their room.
We cannot come together, but we do not have to live like this. The history of the world is nations breaking up and redrawing their borders. If we want to avoid this political divide turning into a deadly one, we should do likewise.
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So what? That's Oregon's problem not mine. Yeah! I don't live there and they are now an independent country, free take make their own decisions (and vice versa). Get it?
First....I think that tribalism on the left will result in open violence. A race war. The left will use their assorted minorities to attack what’s left of the right. It’s certainly the trend.
It is actually fairly neat geographically. Draw a line 50 or so miles inland on both the West and East Coasts. The two coasts are one country, the rest is another. A few million would be trapped behind enemy lines on both sides, but they can either accept permanent minority status or move.
Libs don't want to live separately from normal people.
The dems would be nuts to run any presidential candidate but a minority. The difference in the minority vote between Obama and Clinton in the swing states would have won the election for her. But I doubt any sort of sustained civil unrest could be enacted now by anyone, minority or not. I think too many might be too comfortable and well fed to ever risk it.
Freegards
No, actually, it’s not. Practically all the coastal counties of North Carolina are red, for instance. Get away from the oceanfront counties and they’re practically all red, military bases. There are red coastal counties in, get this... California.
OK, count the red coastal counties. I see nearly 100 directly on the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf of Mexico.
Matter of fact, other than New England and California, the vast majority of coastal counties are red.
You were saying... ?
CWII cometh soon.
There’s no way to get every last person, but so long as a solid 2/3 of the coast was liberal and the middle conservative, that’d be enough to guarantee political dominance for the foreseeable future. There are one or two coastal counties in California that might be red on a good day, but barely anyone lives there.
You must not be in a state you’re proposing to lop the coastline off of, sounds like some sort of Texas thing. Every large city in Texas is liberal. You’d be keeping Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis. And giving up how many ports and military installations? It’s a pipe dream and not a very smart one.
I wasn’t arguing with you, I was supporting your observation that there are numerous “red” coastal counties , particularly in the southeast
I agree sadly-Irreconcilable differences.
News Flash for you - the left is aborting “our posterity.”
If I had the ability to do so simply by a single thought, every leftist in the U.S. would be instantly erased from existence.
Ceding ground isn't the answer.
There is only one answer at this point. How we prevent this from happening again, not a clue. But, yeah, fighting back before it gets to this point would have been an option.
I don’t think a divorce is ceding ground any more than the American Revolution was ceding ground. The issue is states rights against an overruling federal tyrant. If we could abolish the federal government completely, that would be the ideal, leaving states to sovereignly manage themselves, or fall. There would be natural, mutually beneficial confederations of states with like-minded views, and this should be allowed.
Seceding would, in effect, be abolishing the federal government, from the seceding states’ point of view. And that would be the next best thing.
FYI, the article at the source has garnered over 1,500 comments so far. This is a very hot issue.
I agree.
The only answer is revival. Let us do the work of The LORD. Let us fast, pray, preach and love. Let us win the masses to Christ. Let us win the illegal immigrants to Christ. Let us go forth and conquer in Jesus Holy Name. The gates of hell cannot prevail against the Church of Jesus Christ.
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