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Large and growing most compelling reason for considering the potential for a secession movement in this country, dividing the “red” counties/congressional districts in this country from the “blue” pockets scattered around throughout the nearly contiguous “red” region. Declare these geographic area to be two separate countries (or at least the “red” portion as one, and the “blue” pockets as a dozen, or a hundred, or whatever, little separate republics) and continue to operate the government facilities of the “red” portion under the existing Constitution, allowing the “blue” regions to put into effect whatever set of cockamamie rules they think will do them best.

The Democrats, of course, are invited to remove themselves forthwith to the designated “blue” areas, while those of more freedom-loving inclination would be welcomed into the “red” portion. Once this exchange of “prisoners of conscience” has been carried out, the boundaries between the “blue” and “red” districts will be strictly enforced.

Wonderful deal, if this could be done with a minimum of conflict and bloodshed. But even if much violence results, it may still be better, in the long run, that the two opposing philosophies live in separate spheres. Worked just fine, for the most part, between the Soviet Union and the United States, for the better part of half a century.

Until, in one of the strangest inversions in history, the philosophies of the two blocs were somehow exchanged, almost overnight, it would seem. Now the Russian Federation, the successor to the former Soviet Union, is much more receptive to the exercise of that fabulous growth machine, capitalism, than the territory once known as “the United States of America”. Even “Red” China has encouraged the development of capitalistic practices, to the greater disadvantage of whatever that land mass between Mexico and Canada has become.