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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Yeah, we tried that down here once. Didn’t work out so well. We tried to tell y’all..LOL
I never knew that was Jesus
I thought it was Lincoln
Same thing to some freepers..lol
Both sides WERE generally civil and moral. Not so today.
Even now, I wouldn’t disagree. Outside of NYC and the Major urban areas and college towns, NY is a pretty Red State. Trump did win 46 out of the 62 counties of NY, including the county I grew up in, which is 50 miles from Manhattan and has been GOP since Lincoln.
There was a fair amount of snaky playfulness in his map drawing, but his message is still relevant.
I disagree with the author’s conclusion.
The left must be held accountable. They need to be made to pay the ultimate price for their treasonous actions.
I welcome a civil war - because justice requires such remedy; and, as a matter of reality, there will be no “coexistence” possible as long as these traitors are allowed to have any proximity with Americans. The author is delusional if he believes that we can somehow separate this country into independent yet abutting nations, having a common border.
Those of the left persuasion are pure Marxists, with whom you cannot even hope to secure good-faith agreements. It is better to utterly defeat and destroy this enemy. It is better to spill copious quantities of their blood, so that proper justice may be extracted for the evil they have done to the nation. The time has come to dispatch every last one of them into eternity, w/o exception.
“Divorce is hard, but it’s easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife’s car.”
That depends.
I think the real reason is that if we divided and the liberal states separated from us, that would not satisfy them. They would immediately work to infiltrate and try to take down the new conservative state. It would take them a long time, but they would try. I say we make our stand here. Some how and some way, one way or another, the Swamp has to be dealt with. . . cut the head off the snake. They are completely out of control and totally unresponsive to the people.
Can we trade The “T” of Pennsylvania, WV, NH and Upstate NY for South Florida? Thanks.
Why not? Czechoslovakia pulled it off.
Good point. It wouldn't even have to come at our own hands. Just erect a blockade to keep the HIV drugs from being transported to Soyland. There goes half their population in a few years.
IMO it’s better to stomp and crush an enemy than to let them prosper.
More preferable to nuke the cities, and thus solve the problem once and for all.
LoL
Clean the weeds eh
A great way to fix this is to simply wipe out most of the powers of the FedGov and make it like it was before the civil war. In those days, we were a collection of soverign “countries” under a single constitutionally created “umbrella” of protection called the Federal Government. It’s job was to protect the borders within which all the separate states exist, protect the states from each other, ensure no state passes any law that violates the constitutionally protected rights of the individual and enforce laws when the perps attempt to flee from one state to another.
That should be ALL the FedGov does. This way, a liberal in Kentucky can move to Chicago if he so chooses.
There are a lot of reasons peace is better.
First of all, the battle plans never survive contact with the enemy. Civil War is the messiest of all wars, sometimes literally with neighbor against neighbor. And, as our Civil War showed, the maps which showed who sided with who could never be trusted. Would you want to be a Union soldier in rural Kentucky?—The map was not the territory.
Second, the scale of war and the variety of weapons are much much greater now. It could get way out of control and the results totally unpredictable.
The problem is ideological and to an extent spiritual, there are no neat geographical lines. It’s largely urban vs. rural if you’ve got to draw a map, and even that doesn’t hold up, the more granular you get with the data. The people who perceive a problem are largely on either end of the ideological spectrum, the great mushy middle is just plodding along. When the great mushy middle can no longer do that, then the country will no longer cohere. My paternal grandfather was born during Reconstruction, his father was a Confederate, ran away and joined at 14 to look for his oldest brother. They hadn’t heard from him in months. Never found him, he’d been gut shot and died untreated at Point Lookout. You really don’t want civil war. You may think you do, and it may eventually become unavoidable. But, you don’t want it. Anyone who’s clamoring for it is either naive or a fool.
“I like the idea of Philadelpha, Boston, San Francisco, etc. being free and independent cities, able to make up their own laws, and collecting their own taxes.”
It would be more than just those cities as many cities are far too liberal for America.
Their country would include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Austin, Jacksonville, Seattle, San Francisco and Portland.
Let those impoverished Democratic hell holes make it on their own.
Indeed!!
“During the Civil War, civilians on both sides were enormously hospitable to invading armies, especially the South”
Ok, I think you mistook not wanting to stay on an army’s good side with hospitality, because I’ve read no books on this that talked about some down-home good natured hospitality on the part of civilians.
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