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The Left can't stand Trump and conservative. The Right can't stand Hillary and Democrats. We are increasingly refusing to be governed by what we view as the heavy-handed policies of the other side and I can see bloodshed coming in the future (I know the Left already considers it, and, if Obama was just a taste of what we could get if another Dem got in, I could see our side starting the shooting too.). If we cannot seem to agree enough to stay together, perhaps we should split right down the Mississippi or something.
Or perhaps we'll give the Democrats the West and East Coasts and we'll keep the Midwest and the South. You get Hawaii and we keep Alaska. Sound good? We'll even let you add Peurto Rico to the Democrat States of Amerika. (And you can have Chicwalkee, another state formed from the union of Milwaukee and Chicago.)
The Left can't stand Trump and conservative. The Right can't stand Hillary and Democrats. We are increasingly refusing to be governed by what we view as the heavy-handed policies of the other side and I can see bloodshed coming in the future (I know the Left already considers it, and, if Obama was just a taste of what we could get if another Dem got in, I could see our side starting the shooting too.). If we cannot seem to agree enough to stay together, perhaps we should split right down the Mississippi or something.
Or perhaps we'll give the Democrats the West and East Coasts and we'll keep the Midwest and the South. You get Hawaii and we keep Alaska. Sound good? We'll even let you add Peurto Rico to the Democrat States of Amerika. (And you can have Chicwalkee, another state formed from the union of Milwaukee and Chicago.)
Let the left have commifornia, it can unify with Mexico and turn into the third world country it deserves to be. They can have the northeast too. The rest of us can then live in peace from their stupidity and insanity.
The Left can't stand Trump and conservative. The Right can't stand Hillary and Democrats. We are increasingly refusing to be governed by what we view as the heavy-handed policies of the other side and I can see bloodshed coming in the future (I know the Left already considers it, and, if Obama was just a taste of what we could get if another Dem got in, I could see our side starting the shooting too.). If we cannot seem to agree enough to stay together, perhaps we should split right down the Mississippi or something.
Or perhaps we'll give the Democrats the West and East Coasts and we'll keep the Midwest and the South. You get Hawaii and we keep Alaska. Sound good? We'll even let you add Peurto Rico to the Democrat States of Amerika. (And you can have Chicwalkee, another state formed from the union of Milwaukee and Chicago.)
Cool. The democrats get all the seaports and we can charge you republicans tariffs for access. Sign me up.
Stable democracies have voluntarily agreed to partition themselves on a few occasions -- Sweden and Norway in the late Nineteenth Century and Czechoslovakia in 1993 being the best-known examples. But the trend toward what has been dubbed "Balkanization" is intensifying, and rapidly in recent years due to greater mobility and mass communication. It would seem only logical, and dangerously so, that this force would manifest itself within the borders of the world's largest, richest and most tested example of pluralism. The question here is whether we can stop the petty squabbling, like siblings fighting over a small (and likely to dwindle) estate, and recognize the much stronger bonds between us. Media hype to the contrary, I don't think we're anywhere close to the divisions I recall from the late Sixties -- let alone those which gave rise to our Civil War.
The more advanced, stable and prosperous a societal system, the less likely it becomes that its citizens will resort to force to settle their differences and that differences between two or more of those systems would be settled on the battlefield. That was apparent as early as 1815, when the crowned heads of Europe made the first attempt to stabilize the balance of power between them, The upshot of this was to last for just about a century, finally succumbing to the failure of mercantilism (non-militaristic competition for captive markets, which eventually got out of control), and the rise of ideologically-based authoritarianism, (whether Fascist or Marxist, neither extreme has anything to offer the thinking individual). And the resolution of these conflicts resulted in bloodshed at an unprecedented level; a mistake we cannot afford to repeat.[u]
Civil unrest in America, particularly on the West Coast, probably is rooted in nothing more than the motivated individual's desire for something better, countervailed by the pursuit of stability, structure and self-perpetuation (at the expense of individuality) common to any successful enterprise. The very-successful very-few make a convenient target for the perpetual malcontents who are given to expecting too much, too fast, and always in need of a convenient scapegoat, but the evolution of capitalism itself -- from proprietary, to corporate, to philanthropic -- seems increasingly capable of putting a damper on these resentments, the constant whining of a handful of voices at this site to the contrary.
Why don't we just split the country in two? Because we won't have to; the marketplace of human opinion works just as well as any other, and it is the few who would silence those with whom they disagree who comprise the greatest threat to the American Experiment.
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