This idea of breaking up the country may seem a bit
outlandish now, but you won’t think so once real domestic unrest comes to your
town.
Divorce is hard, but it’s easier than cutting the brake lines on
your wife’s car. It is long past time for an amicable divorce of the United
States of America. There is simply no common ground with the Left anymore. We
are now the couple screaming at each other all night, every night as the kids
hide in their room.
We cannot come together, but we do not have to live like this. The
history of the world is nations breaking up and redrawing their borders. If we
want to avoid this political divide turning into a deadly one, we should do
likewise.
Stop
clinging to the past and acknowledge where we are as a country, not where you
want us to be, not where things were when your grandpa was storming the beaches
of Normandy. Where we truly are.
We are a
nation hopelessly divided. We are more divided now than we have ever been in
our history. And before you start screaming at me about the Civil War, keep in
mind that bloody conflict was fought over one major
issue. In those days, take ten families from New York and ten families from
Alabama, put them all in a room, and you’d find they mostly had the same values
(and bad accents).
Now, fast-forward to today and do that same thing. Those families
have virtually nothing in common. We as a nation have polarized and separated
from each other.
Anyone who thinks this is a radical idea has an extremely narrow
view of history. If you don’t believe me, go try to book a plane ticket to
Czechoslovakia, or look at a map of Europe from the year 1600, then look at one
today. See any differences? Borders move. Countries split and change hands.
They do this for a myriad of reasons. Ours would be a major cultural shift
toward the left and half the country refusing to go along with tyranny.
I have been
championing this idea for a while, and it appears others are catching on. Just
last week, a group of lawmakers in South Carolina introduced a bill that
would allow the state to secede if the federal government starts seizing guns.
Why would
those lawmakers even be worried about such a thing? Because Democrats are
saying it—and not just some hippie chick with armpit hair at a vegan rally.
When a former justice of the Supreme Court of the United States calls for a repeal of the
Second Amendment, we should take the Left seriously.
The GOP has many problems, but the Democratic Party has turned
into something completely un-American. The United States was founded on two
things: Judeo-Christian values and a limited federal government. The entire
platform of modern Democrats stands completely opposite both of those.
This is the
party that booed the very
mention of the word “God” at their 2016 convention. This is the party whose
candidates openly “joke” about killing anyone who won’t turn
in his weapons. Their senators joke on national TV about killing the U.S.
president, and the host responds by clapping like a seal.
The 1960s counter-culture liberal protestor who just wanted free
weed and an end to the war in Vietnam has been replaced by a man who hunts down
Steve Scalise and tries to kill him at baseball practice. The Left is not
playing games. They are getting bolder, and they are getting more violent. They
have no interest in rational compromises. Like all authoritarian ideologies,
they want you to bow down before them or be destroyed for daring to resist.
If you believe in God and limited government, here are the
entities that now proclaim their hatred of you in full view of the public: The
Democratic Party, media, Hollywood, the public education system, and now even
corporate America. The GOP may have the House, Senate, and presidency, but we
have completely lost the culture war.
It does not
have to be this way. There is a difficult, but ultimately peaceful path that
ends with everyone getting most of what they want. We divide the nation in two.
We can and will draw the map and argue over it a million different ways for a
million different reasons, but draw it we must. I’ve got my own map, and I
suspect the final draft would look similar.
People say
both sides disagree on everything, but that is not entirely true. A mass
shooting happens at a high school in Florida. Both sides do agree
something should be done. People on the Right think we should increase school
safety. People on the Left think we should restrict the gun rights of every
American citizen, and they’ll try to destroy the career of anyone who
disagrees.
Illegal immigrants are pouring across the border. The Right calls
for increased border security. The Left offers them sanctuary cities and
protection from federal enforcement.
Every issue plays out this same way, and people on the Right will
only accept this kind of abuse for so long. Sooner or later, the left-wing rage
mob will start coming for the careers (and lives) of any normal American who
sees things differently.
This idea of
breaking up the country may seem a bit outlandish now, but you won’t think so
once real domestic unrest comes to your town.
Our political disagreements have become a powder keg, one that already would
have blown if conservatives had liberals’ emotional instability.
Nobody is expected to cheer for this split. Cheering is not a
normal reaction when couples get a divorce. We cheer for old married people on
their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
But life is imperfect. Life is hard. We both now agree that living
under the other side’s value system is wholly unacceptable. The most peaceful
solution we Americans can hope for now is to go our separate ways. So let us
come together one last time and agree on one thing: Irreconcilable differences.
Jesse is a
Marine Corps combat veteran, former congressional candidate in Arizona, and
contributor to The Resurgent. Jesse currently resides in the Houston area with
his wife and two sons.