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2018-04-12 Home Front: Politix

It's Time For The United States To Divorce Before Things Get Dangerous

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-12 08:25|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 So, CA, WA and OR split off and form their own country.

Does the remainder of the U.S. sign a mutual defense treaty with them, or just throw them to the ChiComs?

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-04-12 09:26|| 2018-04-12 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 No. Please, no.

I have federal rights and protections even though I live amongst commies. Don't I?
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Posted by Chesney McCoy5914 2018-04-12 11:36|| http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com 2018-04-12 11:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Generally speaking, the blue states are on the east and west coasts. So, if we divided the country as this article suggests, the red states would be deprived of deep water ports. This is not acceptable. OTOH, if they want a war we have a pretty good idea who wins and who loses. The writer's claim that divorce is easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife's car is not necessarily true and she needs to know that. With the lawyers and the judges on her side, divorce is not necessarily the best option. I don't usually consider myself a war monger but I am not willing to let them have California.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-12 11:52|| 2018-04-12 11:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Countries split and change hands. They do this for a myriad of reasons. And nearly always accompanied by mass murder and destruction.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-04-12 11:55|| 2018-04-12 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Houston, Mobile, Jacksonville, Katrina demonstrated deep drafts up to Baton Rouge, et al.

IIRC correctly a lot of shipping got diverted through the Canal to the Gulf ports due to labor issues on the Pac coast.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-12 11:59|| 2018-04-12 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 And then Eastern Washington state, California, upstate New York, and so forth and so on all seceded from the secessionists... Followed by Austin, TX going Blue and seceding... Madness.

Posted by magpie 2018-04-12 12:09|| 2018-04-12 12:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Map has Minnesota as a "blue" state. Author's never been outside Minneapolis/St Paul, I'd guess.

Posted by Slats Pelosi4109 2018-04-12 14:15|| 2018-04-12 14:15|| Front Page Top

#8 That map is nonsense. I'll die before I allow Nevada to belong to such a county.

Posted by Secret Master 2018-04-12 14:50|| 2018-04-12 14:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Better to subdivide states. California could easily split in three or more. NY should split so that upstate and Metro are separate.

That and push power back from Washington to the States so those making decisions are a little easier to hold accountable.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-12 15:36|| 2018-04-12 15:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Keep the monuments and museums in DC but disperse the government.

Posted by irishrageboy 2018-04-12 16:30|| 2018-04-12 16:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Good luck with the area around northern Idaho being part of Blue, or New Mexico being part of Red.

We're divided because we've been deliberately divided by the media and the long march through the schools over the past several decades.

Part of the solution would be to get ideology out of the schools and get back to teaching the basics, including civics and the history of western civilization. I have no idea how to accomplish that, given the current state of education, except to start over. Alternatively, get the Federal government, the teacher's union, and the textbook monopoly out of education and let the states work things out.

To raise awareness enough to accomplish that politically, something has to be done about more balance in the MSM. You'll never get an individual outlet to be balanced. That's too much to expect and has not been the case historically. The MSM was simply turned over to the left without any resistance.

What's needed is a balanced industry. The right needs to buy or start new news and media organizations which deliberately exclude leftists.

Posted by KBK 2018-04-12 19:13|| 2018-04-12 19:13|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd say the map of the country got redrawn in the 2016 election by the electoral vote.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-04-12 19:27|| 2018-04-12 19:27|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't have any problem with us in Texas seceding. We already have one of the top 10 economies in the world. We are outta here, screw it all.
My family has been here since 1812 with original Travis Colony. Ive got papers of being a new Texan. My Mom is a member of DAR; Daughter of the American Republic, And Daughter of the Daughter of the Texas Republic.

We in Texas Can Fight >Damn straight!! URAGH!!

Posted by texhooey 2018-04-12 23:55|| 2018-04-12 23:55|| Front Page Top

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