Why don't we just split the country in two? (Christmas, solution, military)

[Tominftl]

Trump can be the King and liar in Chief for the Red States. You’ll need to fact check every word that he utters.....

[Tominftl]

Trumplandia is what we’ll call it. Your President for Life....

[Icy Tea]

I said we can all live together but have two different governments sharing the same country.
Republicans would have lower taxes and lower social services spending.
Democrats would have higher taxes but more entitlement and social services spending.
Republicans could own and carry guns, democrats could not.
Democrats could get abortions, republicans could not.
Gay democrats could get married, gay republicans could not.
Democrats could only get electricity from solar or wind power, republicans could use whatever.
I guess democrats would okay unchecked immigration but they'd have to foot the bills for them. Any republican adversely affected by immigrants would be reimbursed by the democrats who would have to pay. Likewise a republican committing a crime would make the republicans responsible for any costs to democrats. And vice versa.
Maybe a house divided can stand, let's see what happens.

[skins_fan82]

Well, the cities that generate the most revenue for this country are all blue, so....

Let the dems have the east and west coast, where all the money and important cities are. Let the conservatives have the south and the flyover states.

[fibonacci]

Country splits into two. Then who's going to pay for the red states' addiction to the federal coffers?

[Old Gringo]

Originally Posted by MongooseHugger

Why don't we just split the country in two?

Because the handful of irrational anti-Americans who want that can just pack up and find their greener pastures on their own.

Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

Use that rugged self reliance.

The door is open.

America will somehow muddle along without you if you choose to go.

Follow your dream to wherever it takes you.

Maybe someplace that uses a weird alphabet.

[tijlover]

What a silly argument! I go along with what Gore Vidal said, back in the 1970's: Essentially, we only have one political party in this country, one part swings left, one part swings right!

Even Gore Vidal advocating splitting up this country.

Think! California is about the same size as Germany!

[Bureaucat]

The country isn’t going to split.

The old codgers raising the most hell will just kick off, and not be replenished by enough of the young for them to matter.

They know that with time their numbers are dwindling. That’s why they’re raising so much hell.

[Catgirl64]

Didn't we try this once? Seems like it didn't end very well.

[War Beagle]

Originally Posted by Catgirl64

Didn't we try this once? Seems like it didn't end very well.

Yeah it didn't end well because because the union was forced back together. The civil war was a good indication that this whole union thing wasn't such a great idea in the first place.