Posted on 01/11/2021 5:43:26 AM PST by Kaslin
There are some things we should ALL be able to agree on, left or right. Murder and rape are bad, love and kindness are good, and what happened last Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol should never, ever happen in a democratic society. While conservatives are more than correct to drag the media for downplaying the Black Lives Matter summer of riots, er, love, none of us should fall into the trap of in any way justifying the mob action that took place. It was dangerous, illegal, counter-productive to any intent to help Trump or the cause of election reform, and will and has resulted in a severe overreaction from power-hungry Democrats and Big Tech oligarchs hellbent on curbing even more of our precious liberties.
There. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about a few things left and right CAN’T seem to agree on. Things like liberty, taxation, varying degrees of wokeness, critical race theory, free speech, abortion, self-defense, immigration, the Second Amendment, and, particularly important of late, corona fascism. On these issues and more, left and right aren't just not seeing eye to eye, they are displaying a blazing contempt for each other that makes the bitterest divorce seem tame.
But if there is a solution to all this, what is it? Does a “two-state” solution lie in America’s future, a peaceful split whereby liberty lovers and would-be communists bid each other adieu, then go off and create governments that fit their values and ideas? It actually sort of sounds good, in theory. Truly, the thought of living in a country where I wouldn’t have to worry every election cycle about my liberties being taken away delights me to my soul, and frankly, never having to interact with leftist ingrates would be an added bonus.
But how would that work exactly? If we split somewhere, say, along the Mason-Dixon line, how about newly-minted blue state Georgia? Do we carve off Atlanta and let Hillarystan conduct Berlin airlift-style supply runs? What about New Hampshire, or rural Pennsylvania and New York? There are countless examples like this, and where to "draw the line" gets even more complicated when you consider that different political views are a staple in virtually every American community, workplace, and even most families. Unfortunately, as Tucker Carlson opined Wednesday night, we seem to be “conjoined twins.”
“You may have nothing in common with the people on the other side of the country, but you’re stuck with them,” Carlson said. “The idea that groups of Americans will break off into separate, peaceful nations of like-minded citizens, that’s a fantasy. That will not happen. There is no such thing as a peaceful separation. There never has been and there won’t be. The two hemispheres of this country are inseparably intertwined. They are conjoined twins. Neither can leave without killing the other. That’s the first thing to know. As horrifying as this moment is, we have no option but to make it better, to gut it out.”
Tucker is right, of course. Short of some sort of cataclysmic event none of us would want to happen, forming separate countries based on ideology is going to be off the table for at least most of our lifetimes. However, does that mean the answer is to keep doing what we’re doing? Because judging by the staggering losses conservatives and freedom-lovers have endured over the past year, that hardly seems like the correct path. The truth is, and we all know it, GOP Inc. is not going to help us get where we need to be. One need only look at how quickly the Electoral College challenges were abandoned Wednesday night to see this. Did the need for election reform suddenly disappear because a few hundred Trump supporters jumped the shark? I don’t think so, and yet instead of saving free and fair elections our overlords are now going on about “insurrections” and “coup attempts” while conducting massive-scale deplatforming and making no pretences about their future plans to curb civil liberties. Never let a good crisis go to waste, right?
It’s time to face it. We tried this thing from the top down with Trump and, other than a few key victories here and there, it didn’t work. The bureaucracy is too entrenched, the Deep State too deep, and Trump’s powers, and in some cases his will to use them, in the end weren’t significant enough to drain a flooded basement much less the D.C. swamp. So where do we go from here, from what appears to be pretty close to rock bottom? The answer, I think, is to realize that though we’ve taken a few gut punches, we’re by no means out of the fight. Though the left took 2016 ridiculously hard, they also took it in one way we could take a lesson from. Not only did they #Resist in every possible way, starting with massive grassroots organization, they also went back to their states, run by fellow leftists, and, well, did whatever the hell they wanted to do.
Which leads to the obvious question: Why on earth can’t we do the same thing? Since we seem to be already there, it’s time to start at the bottom, at the local level, and work our way up. Does your county have a mask mandate? Organize! Fight back! Put pressure on your local officials. Run for office yourself or convince someone you know to run, then help them. The good news is conservatives do control a majority of state and local governments. Though most of them have sadly fallen victim to the Branch Covidian mask cult, they are nevertheless vulnerable to pressure from their constituents and will be more likely to resist federal attempts at control when it’s coming from a Biden administration.
Indeed, the answer to dealing with the current political divide without lawlessness or a devastating national separation is built into the Constitution. It’s called federalism. Using the same concept blue states happily did with drug laws, we must rely on state and local governments, and sheriffs, to protect us from the coming federal tyranny. These people live, work, and worship with us, and we must exert the kind of pressure that makes it harder for them to ignore us than it is to obey pressure from nameless, faceless federal bureaucrats. And when that doesn’t work, we must use the courts as best we can to gum up the works, if not sue them into oblivion.
Given the events of the past week, it’s obviously past time to diversify our social networks. To that end, please consider following me on Gab and friending me on MeWe if you are on those platforms.
No.
Is There a Solution to the Ongoing National Divide Without Actually Dividing?
NO
There is, but it would require liberals to understand the Constitutional limits to the government and not push the government past its Constitutional limits.
Otherwise, there is not a solution to the eventual dissolution of the United States.
To answer the question in the headline no, there is not. Division is already here in every way but politically. To keep the bloodshed to a minimum, smart and able people had better start figuring out a way to split it up.
Now that the Democrats control both Houses and the Presidency. Why wouldn’t they want the divide and the chaos? Gives them more of an excuse to pass laws that give them more power over us. Just watch what they do over the next 2 years. By the time people get a chance to vote again, it will be too late to reverse it.
We had better figure out REAL QUICKLY how we are going to COMMUNICATE after every single platform is taken away.
Email will be gone, all websites will be shut down, they can disable our phones. How are you going to organize then? They aren’t even in office yet and we are nearly 40% shut down.
Already they are talking about designating “us” as terrorists. When they do that (and they will), all bets are off. We will be in prisons. Hmm, makes sense now why they emptied the jails all over the country. Maybe we can organize in prison, we best be learning morse code.
Yeah, it is going to be that bad. Think about this, when we are “terrorists”, our property can be seized. Yeah, it’s that bad.
That guy loves to write but I don’t have the attention span to read that. The divide was started by Bill Clinton to win elections and it is a deep state tool. Trump has done good to bring some of us together.
Nonsense.
It was a mostly peaceful protest against a stolen election.
It has been demonized by our enemies.
Their message is clear: riots are ok for the Left.
A mostly peaceful protest, with a very small amount of damage, is totally unacceptable for conservatives.
This is the power of propaganda and control of the information flow, which they are now attempting to consolidate.
Cast out the demons and send them all into a herd of pigs? Thats about it. See my tagline.
National unity requires a consensus of commonly held values. Since the 1960’s that consensus has constantly eroded and now simply no longer exists in America. Sorry but that core problem prevents “unity” and when examined closely is really quite combustionable.
Open your eyes. This is some lofty statement here. Murder and Rape are ok if it against conservatives.
And what about this? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-
Does anyone truly believe this?
He loses his entire argument in his second sentence. Rape and Murder are glorified by the left. Thus the ‘peaceful protests’ of last summer were so widely hailed. This should come as no surprise to anyone who actually listens to Rap music.
I must be a stand alone in thinking that the Capital Tour that took place this past week needs to happen a little more often....
I quit reading after reading : a few trump supporters jumped the shark.
Very quaint, but people who think that the Democrats will allow this country to divide peacefully STILL have NO IDEA just who their new masters are and the revenge they’re intent on.
The courts coming out against fraud are the only mechanism that is going to force Congressional and public action. If it is sooner, I’m still hopeful.
Unfortunately one side believes that they can persuade the other side to agree with them.
The other side will never be persuaded because they have been trained to hate you. They have been trained that, even if your ideas may produce good results, they were conceived from evil and must be rejected without a hearing.
One side reasons, the other side puts their fingers in their ears and says “na na na na”
So. No.
Either break up the country and let the Left have their coasts and we take everything else
OR.
NOPE
No!
To seek unity is appeasement. To try to get along is to lock your shackles and chains in place.
Freedom, your liberty, is at stake. The left wing zealots must be confronted and destroyed
I do agree that our only chance now is to go local and work our way up with the hopes that the huge federal bureaucracy doesn’t crush us along the way.
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