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Is a National Divorce the Solution to America’s Political Divide?
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!
- The article explores the idea of a “national divorce,” or the idea that the United States could potentially split into multiple separate countries.
- Supporters of a national divorce argue that the country is too divided and that different regions would be better off governing themselves independently.
- However, critics argue that a national divorce is not a viable solution to political and social divisions, and that it would only exacerbate existing problems.
As political and social divisions continue to deepen in the United States, some people are asking whether a “national divorce” is the solution to the country’s problems. The idea is that the country could split into multiple separate nations, each with its own government and laws.
Supporters of a national divorce argue that this would allow different regions to govern themselves according to their own values and priorities, without being forced to compromise with other parts of the country. They point to the growing cultural and political differences between regions as evidence that the country is too divided to function effectively as a single nation.
However, critics argue that a national divorce is not a viable solution to the country’s problems. They point out that the United States has a long history of successful compromise and cooperation between different regions and political groups, and that dividing the country would only exacerbate existing problems. In addition, a national divorce would raise difficult questions about borders, citizenship, and the division of assets and resources.
The idea of a national divorce raises important questions about the future of the United States and the challenges it faces in addressing political and social divisions. However, it is unlikely to be a simple or effective solution to these problems, and will require careful consideration and dialogue before any serious action is taken.
Source: TheWeek
rebel
February 23, 2023 at 6:35 pm
yeah, i think a national divorce is a good idea. that way conservative states can run themselves as they seem fit and the dunbass commie leftist states can run them selves into the ground. i think it’s a great idea.
Ell Jay
February 23, 2023 at 7:02 pm
I agree. The commie states can whistle all they want to get funding for their criminal enterprises with no help from the conservatives. Then let’s see how that commie lifestyle works out. One last thing: before any lefties want to move to conservative areas, they must be properly vetted!
Ed D.
February 23, 2023 at 8:17 pm
NO LEFTIST COMMIES PERIOD!!!!
Andrew B Casler
February 24, 2023 at 7:20 am
As long as we can ensure all the communists stay where they belong. they usually try to take over other areas once they’ve destroyed their own
Ed D.
February 23, 2023 at 7:27 pm
I am with you.
ARJAY
February 23, 2023 at 8:44 pm
I’m not totally opposed to this idea. At least, not at this time.
Tom
February 23, 2023 at 7:04 pm
A national divorce is just what the left wants. Divide and conquer. Does anyone really think the communists will stop and be content with only half a loaf? A national divorce is a bad, really bad idea! Remember the words of Abraham Lincoln, that a house divided against itself cannot stand. There is only one way to solve this issue–COMPLETELY DEFEAT THE LEFT! Get it? Got it? Good!
Ed D.
February 23, 2023 at 7:29 pm
Hey Tom, tell us how we do that? At the Ballot box? That is now a joke here. No way that geriatric bag of wind received 80 million votes. They gave him that many to make sure Trump didn’t win. If you believe otherwise, you are just fooling yourself! So tell me how we do it!
Tom
February 24, 2023 at 7:16 am
By getting involved with your politicians (not the ones you can’t vote for or against–they don’t care what you think) and hold their feet to the fire. If they don’t listen, vote them out. Get physically involved at your district voting places. By that, I mean volunteer to be a poll watcher or official. It may take time but keep at it. The left didn’t get where they are overnight.
Ed D.
February 24, 2023 at 8:10 am
There you go with the “vote them out” narrative. Answer my question, do you believe that geriatric Joe actually had 80 Million people vote for him in 2020?
Tom
February 24, 2023 at 7:19 am
I ask you the same question–what solution or course of action do you suggest? I notice that you’re dumping on everyone who wants to fight back. What do you advise?
Ed D.
February 24, 2023 at 8:15 am
Tom, I am not “dumping on everyone that wants to fight back”! I am merely asking them what course of action will they take? Our elections are a sham now, so what can we possibly do? My course of action is to secede from the Union and form a new union based on the actual Constitution. One that institutes 2 term limits for ALL government positions.
Our supreme court is a joke! They wouldn’t even listen to all of the evidence of fraud during the 2020 election. They “lacked standing” was their go to excuse. Again, what a joke!
Andrew B Casler
February 24, 2023 at 7:27 am
That isn’t true. At the state level there are many red areas that want to break away from the urban blue ares that control them. It’s always the blue areas that are against it. My state of NY is a prime example. We’re sitting directly on top of the largest natural gas reserve outside of Pennsylvania. ZERO drilling is allowed. In fact, upstate has ALL the natural resources. Downstate claims we couldn’t survive without Wall Street. I say ” we’ll see about that”.
josephine Mauro
February 23, 2023 at 7:09 pm
States that do not comply with the U.S. Constitution that they took an oath of office when sworn into office,
are violating their oath and should be removed by the voters.
Ed D.
February 23, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Josephine, do you really think that your vote counts these days? Not hardly. They will do what they did in the 2020 and 2022 elections…..CHEAT!
Andrew B Casler
February 24, 2023 at 7:29 am
That’s the problem. The people who vote for them don’t care about The Constitution any more than the politicians do.
CharlieSeattle
February 23, 2023 at 7:11 pm
Noooooooo! That’s a cowards way out!
Take back all the seditious institutions! Ban the Democrat party!
2nd amendment time!
Ed D.
February 23, 2023 at 7:27 pm
Tough words Charlie. But let’s see you do what you just suggested. If you so much as hinted that you were going to attempt to organize an effort to take back the seditious institutions and ban the dems, you would disappear, never to be heard from again. They have grown too big and have too much power and control to stop them!
NEXT IDEA?
pat
February 23, 2023 at 7:22 pm
rational verses irrational
Ed D.
February 23, 2023 at 7:31 pm
So what is rational? What is irrational?
Ed D.
February 23, 2023 at 7:23 pm
A national divorce would be a shock, no doubt! But at this point in History, it may be just what is needed. States like Ca., NY., Il, Mass., Mn., Vt., Md., NM., Co., Az., Or and Washington State, have gone off the deep end. I for one, am tired of seeing Statues and Monuments being torn down in the name of Communism! I am sick of the states that push gun control, as if it is a cure to crime and mass shootings. I am sick of seeing illegal invaders being shipped throughout this great country, as if they were shipping cattle to their new home. I am sick of the war mongers that run this country. No term limits has created con men and women that come into office at very little wealth but leave multi millionaires. The Constitution allows for the disbanding of the government if they are no longer representing the citizens. But that is an impossibility. Anyone that even began attempting to organize anything like that would disappear, never to be seen again! The government has grown too large and has too much control to change it. We are past the point of no return.
Then there is the issue of elections. We all know that elections have become a joke here. Just like in the third world countries.
If anyone here has a viable solution (not talking out of your backside), I would love to hear it! For me, a National Divorce is more appealing each day!
Andrew B Casler
February 24, 2023 at 7:33 am
Don’t lump NY into that. 62 total counties completely controlled by 5 downstate communist counties. Look at a red/blue map of the US by county. California, Washington, and Oregon are other examples.
Ed D.
February 24, 2023 at 8:23 am
Well Andrew, I didn’t mean every county in every Blue State. But I do mean that you have no way of making yourself relevant within the State of NY. It is controlled by the commies, in the big cities, who run government. I am originally from Buffalo NY and moved to Florida in 1986. Best thing I ever did. I firmly believe that counties that want to break away from their communist controllers should either see if negotiations will work and if not, then pack up and move. I know that is not an ideal solution for everyone but you have to either be willing to sacrifice for what you believe in, or have your beliefs ignored and over run by the commies! Your choice!
John M.
February 23, 2023 at 9:02 pm
This was tried in the 1860s with disastrous results. But we didn’t have the powerful enemies we have today who would salivate at the opportunity to get us divided and with our guard down.
Andrew B Casler
February 24, 2023 at 7:33 am
No it wasn’t
Sean Richman
February 23, 2023 at 9:42 pm
Good idea,kaifornia could be the capitol and the rest of the liberal,socialist,iffy democ ratic states could suck right in under gavin nuisanceMove them all to their own little”pitty pond”.
Walter
February 23, 2023 at 10:15 pm
I hear we cannot take our country back from what can only be called a totally criminal minority. I hear a million great reasons why not to even try. Then I remember a story about poorly dressed, almost starved men, freezing in the snow. They were poorly equipped and facing the worlds most powerful army and navy. The odds against them were as likely as a honest election these days. Like these men I would prefer to die standing up than on my belly sucking liberal leftist bovine sourced plant enhancement products. I have been in war and know the pain. Two years of combat should qualify me to make this statement, along with a Purple Heart. I personally as the black folks say am tired of being tired and feed up.
Ed D.
February 24, 2023 at 5:46 am
Walter, thank you for your service. But you gave a speech that had no answer to the dilemma we now find this country in. The federal government has become way too big and has more control over us that anyone here would care to admit. Tell me Walter, what EXACTLY do we do to take back our country? How do we do it? What process will we be able to partake in? As I said earlier, the voting booth is now a joke here. The courts won’t even look at the evidence of voter fraud that is readily available. They certainly would never entertain a secession law suit. So where do we turn?
Willie
February 23, 2023 at 11:57 pm
I believe a marriage should be similar to getting a driver’s license, upon getting married you have up to two years to turn in the marriage license, If you don’t the marriage is not validated and the Marriage license can be canceled. After the marriage license is turned in, a traditional divorce is the only way out.
David Dutra
February 24, 2023 at 1:09 am
Dividing this country much more will be the end of it !
Actually wanting to do it us the ABSOLUTE MOST IDIOT PROPOSITION ANYONE IN THIS GOVERNMENT HAS EVER SUGGESTED…
WE ALL DESERVE BETTER / DIFFERENT THAN THE 2 EXTREME IDEALISTS AT THE TOP OF BOTH SIDES OF THE GIVERNMENT AND OR THEIR LIKE MINDED PUPPETS ! ! !
Sandra
February 24, 2023 at 1:38 am
Best idea to come out in the open.
Crime, open borders, shedding laws of the Founding Fathers, sexual deviancy, pronoun stupidity, the whole damned lot in one region.
Now how can that be a mistake.
Colby Goodson
February 24, 2023 at 6:54 am
Convention of States is a start. Then expand the power to over rule the deep state politicians in Washington.
Larry Barnett
February 24, 2023 at 7:50 am
I think this can effectively be done. Amend the US Constitution to give the States Supremacy to run themselves as they wish, turn over all taxing and social programs, policing (e.g. integrate the FBI), etc. to the States. Property ownership stays the same just like a person/company can own foreign property now, but a State could make very tight restrictions for future property acquisitions like most countries (e.g. Canada and Mexico). A conservative state could have extremely controlled citizenship (with benefits) and voting rights, like most countries do now. Free travel/visitation in a “foreign” State, just fewer rights. Liberal States could be free to implement their liberal agendas and let anyone immigrate at will and vote in “free for all” elections and receive free everything and do any immoral thing they want. As for mutual defense create something like a States NATO with a greatly downsized “Federal” government with officials selected per original US Constitution. Redraw State borders (or even form a few new States, e.g. Jefferson) to better reflect local ideologies. The new system would be closer to the original intended by our Founding Fathers than it is now. This actually would force the liberal States to become more conservative, even as this new system was working out the details, as they quickly realize their ideologies on a more local level will not succeed.
Ed D.
February 24, 2023 at 1:07 pm
Larry, that was very well put! You are on the right track. The first one on here that I see has actually offered a viable solution to the problem. I negotiated contracts between our Union and a very large, powerful Corporation. Negotiations are not always about your ultimate goal. I believe, with the right people at the helm, we could negotiate the necessary changes, NOT TO THE CONSTITUTION but to the Federal Government itself! There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Constitution. What is wrong is that they are ignoring it and doing as they please via executive fiat! A secession movement, does not have to end up in an actual secession. If the powers to be (the deep state) see that we are actually serious about this, I firmly believe that they would be more than willing to give concessions to the states that are seeking to secede!
Don't Do It
February 24, 2023 at 12:05 pm
United we stand — divided we fall !!! Don’t remember who said that but I believe it. I feel the divorce idea would just cause more divisions — and no one has thought out where the money to run “each of these little countries” would come from nor how the debt America now carries would be parceled out and paid off. China already owns too much of our real estate how would that be dealt with etc. No way a divorce !!!
Ed D.
February 24, 2023 at 5:40 pm
Washington is responsible for the current debt. Washington can deal with it! We are already over our head in debt. The war mongers want to continue pumping more money into corrupt Ukraine! It will never end unless we make it end! States where China owns land will just have to deal with it! Seceding does not mean that we can’t continue to function as a body. It doesn’t mean that the Military disappears. It just means that the Red States would have to provide their fair share to maintain it. It would also mean that the Federal Government would no longer have the power and control over us that they now possess! Each State has their own Bureau if Investigation. As an example, Georgia has the Georgia Bureau of Investigation! But it is operated by the State of Georgia and can not stick its nose into Florida’s business. The money to run the “Patriot States of America”, would come the same way it currently does. Each State has a budget but there would also have to be a Congress and Senate, just as there is now. The big difference being there would be a 2 term limit to any and all Government positions. This would include individual State Governments! YES WAY to a DIVORCE!
Michael Allen
February 24, 2023 at 1:32 pm
If it were done by county level or smaller probably 80+ pct of the country would be Red.
Sean Richman
February 24, 2023 at 9:43 pm
I fear that our country is headed that way.The liberal,socialist,marxist”dinglecRATS”think that their way is the law.They are wrong,the constitution is the law.I would vote for a separation of ideologies,other wise no part of AMERICA will survive,the real AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David Dutra
February 26, 2023 at 1:58 am
THINKING IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO DIVIDE THIS COUNTRY ANY MORE THAN BITH SIDES OF THIS IDIOT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE ALREADY DONE IS “NUTS”!!!!
WE DESERVE DIFFERENT THAN HAN ALL OF THESE IDIOT IDEALISTS AND THEIR PUPPETS !!!