Posted on 02/20/2023 1:43:19 PM PST by thegagline
That’ll win a lot of elections.
Cuba might tip over if we did that.
States are stuck because they accept federal taxes?
Stop accepting federal taxes and states raise their own taxes?
Let the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Washington D.C., Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, San Francisco, San Jose, Dallas and Austin be their own country, with their own taxing authority and let everyone else do their own thing.
Today’s Democrats would no more let the Red States part in peace, than Pharaoh let the Israelites depart in peace...
I think you got your colors backwards...Reds are republican, Blues are democrats...
Spain 1936 is where we're headed.
The way the population is mixed, you cannot have a geographical divide...
We tried a divorce once - North and South. The problem was that the North could not pay its bills without the tariff’s from the South - they simply could not afford to let the South go - - - and nothing has changed.
Yes. You do.
That's kind of true for both sides. No blue states just blue large cities. The difference is that the blue large cities suck resources from everywhere for themselves, and force red cities to capitulate and deny red cities their rights and resources.
Much of the problem was caused by this USSC decision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims
It made high population centers dominant in states.
State Senators should represent territory analogous to states like counties. Of course, this stupid decision was inspired by the republic destroying 17th Amendment. Ever since the Wilson era we have tilted the balance from a republic toward a democracy I should say a mob-ocracy. It’s been done to the point now that average person can’t tell you what the difference is. Mix in radical egalitarianism which has metastasized since the 1960s and you have a slow march toward a people’s democratic dystopia. (it’s not so slow march now!)
“Instead of a divorce we need election integrity. The DemoMarxist is a small minority”
So true.
They just need to isolate the Dem run cities from the rest of the states. Make them all like DC.
Whether you agree or disagree it’s healthy to have the discussion.
From what I’ve seen, there are rural liberals and urban Conservatives.
And since what the radicals are trying to do *IS* to create deep divisions and trouble between groups of Americans, I see no sense in helping them to do it.
Is it because their lust for power and control over other is so strong they cannot bear to lose any of their "subjects" (us!)?
This is great if you live in a red state but if you don’t then what ? Move? And do what for a living? My living won’t translate to other states. Yet now that I think of it, I don’t live in a blue state so much as a red state, NY, that is dominated by a blue city. Don’t we kinda have them surrounded…?
So do I. I hate leftist Amerika.
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