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Can you just picture all the radio stations in the United Burgs of Republicanland?
1)Rush Limbaugh Hate Radio 24/7
2)Country Classics (not that there's anything wrong with that)
4)Classic Rock (with a little metal thrown in for the Skinheads)
3)Jesus Radio (not that there's anything wrong with that, either)
and that's it!
I already live there! It's called Crossville, TN! Help me!
I would live in the Republican nation where I could legally kill anyone who tried taking my stuff, but I'd frequently visit the Democratic nation for the strip clubs and casinos.
HA! Republicans love strip clubs and casinos too you know no need to leave home.
What if America was split into two countries: One is run by Democrats. The other is run by Republicans. Neither are allowed immigration from either side, just tourist visas.
Which one would you live in?
(BTW, the Republican nation would be a pure Republic, without Medicare/Medicaid and any other Democratically-driven social programs.)
I´d live in the democrat U.S. (peace, stronger ties with Europe, better healthcare, economy, etc) well...that´d be my only choice since the Republican U.S. would probably be exterminated (WARS, Bush, oil greedy republicans, etc)
Really and truly that sounds awful. I wouldn't want to live in either one. Republicans create jobs and democrats improve quality of life. Both need each other actually.
It's a shame this country has gotten so divided and people can't meet in the middle.
New Hampshire? Isn't there some sort of Libertarian Freedom State Project type thing going on in New Hampshire where a bunch of libertarians are banding together to start a libertarian gov't?
How about taking the territories (Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Midway Islands, etc)? They're beautiful.
The split would eventually kill liberalism. Businesses in the blue states would migrate to the inevitably lower tax rates in the red. Even Michael Moore couldn't resist the temptation of lower tax rates in MI.
for his film business. It would be very satisfying to watch the death of progressivism and the restoration of financial freedoms!
I don't see why either side would object to this. Democrats keep saying that their political nirvana is a country with higher federal taxes, more federal regulations, more illegal immigration and more federal government spending. Well, let them have it! If they had a decisive political majority in a country that's half of America, they could have all of that -- and more. How could they possibly complain?
Same goes for the Republicans. They want lower federal taxes, no illegal immigration, less federal spending and less federal regulation. Divide the country into two, and they could have it all. I don't hear a single Republican who would complain.
How would this work, practically? One party could have no more than 25 of the current states, where a minimum of 23 would be geographically consecutive, assuming the same entity also had Hawaii and Alaska. It would probably have to leave room for each half having at least one state on each of the two oceans. Practically speaking, that would, in turn, mean that California and Washington state could not be part of the same country -- the question is which would be which. Other than that, almost every combination would be possible.
Clearly, this would have to entail moving, for close to half of the population. The real solution here would be one of natural selection, where people would do it over some period of time. Americans moved before, such as in the 1800s when they headed West, and they still move today where some states show large net immigration numbers and other states have been de-populating for at least a decade or two. With more change and distinction, chances are that this new migration would be faster and more pronounced.
The U.S. today is one of the world's largest countries, geographically. Our population density is relatively low. In other words, we have the luxury of doing this. Even in our smaller and oldest states in the Northeast, natural resources are vast and not cramped by most international standards.
We won't want any civil war of any kind, let alone any bloodshed. We want a peaceful and amicable separation that will greatly satisfy both political sides of the spectrum. I hear from Democrats all the time that they would prefer that Texas go off and be its own country, because it is just not like the rest of 'em. Likewise, I hear political activists from other states say the corresponding same thing about California and Washington, D.C. With a peaceful and amicable separation, problem solved.
All of these political scores could be settled once and for all by both political sides to enjoy relative peace in each of their homes. We don't need a one-size-fits-all. We can have our cookies and eat them too. Just split the cookie in half.
In a few years it would be obvious, for all the world to see, which system works best. We liberals can finally prove what we continually repeat.
The democrats can all move south and the republicans can all move north. This way democrats get their immigration quotas easy and the majority of blacks don't have to be uprooted again.
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