I agree. It looks to me if y’all want to avoid another war between the states, years of fighting, thousands dead, the a two state solution is looking to be the best choice in my opinion.
The country has spent well over a decade being polarized, largely for profit, by 24hr news cycles, and lowlife politicians. And I don’t see you turning that train around to be honest.
Does anyone truly believe that the right and the left will ever find compromise or middle ground? You’ve had a respected middle road/compromise guy trying for four plus years. And you’re still having the real work of government held hostage by obstructionists. Does anyone really see a way out? The right will suddenly see reason, accept gay marriage, embrace this century? The left will suddenly agree to give more tax breaks to rich guys and not care about moving backward to a "Christian " government like the founding fathers intended? I’m not seeing it.
Maybe it’s time for America to take some of it’s own medicine. How many countries have they foisted the two part state upon in the name of making peace?
Let the south secede already. They can have their guns, and draconian abortion laws, they can put prayer back in school and nativity scenes back in the town hall, teach creationism instead of science. They can pursue their "everyone prospers when rich, white guys get richer’ strategy, and pour all their money into defence, build a big ass border fence, whatever turns their cranks, without being chastised my others.
Mean while, the north can have gun control, access to abortion and contraception, a continued separation between church and state, tax hikes for the wealthy, drops in defence spending, stick to science, etc, without having to battle over every stupid detail, whether god’s word trumps science.
They could have a government that serves them and vice versa. Everyone would be happier and feel much more optimistic about the future, I think.
Yes, there would be difficulties divvying up the national debt, the armed forces, etc. But, like a divorce, it can be done. And the reason it should be done, though likely to be both ugly and difficult, is that it’s better than a damned war!
They had no problem imposing such on India, Palestine etc. maybe it’s time to take a little of their own medicine? Or at least wake up and smell the coffee to the disgraceful dysfunction that is their political climate.
How can anyone deny that the twice elected current president has given it his very best shot to form some kind of working government? And yet, it remains hopelessly gridlocked and ineffective by the actions of the people who lost the election!
No one questions this mans integrity or the sincerity of his efforts to fix Washington, I believe (beyond pure partisan hacking, of course) Yet in eight years he gets nowhere? What comes next?
I’m just saying, maybe it’s time to consider it, is all.