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One Question That Could Soon Enter Our Minds…As Horrible as It Is
Matt Vespa
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Joe Biden promised a lot of things. You just knew some landed in the realm of the absurd or unattainable. There was no way he was going to shut down COVID. He did inherit three vaccines, thanks to Trump, which have done more to get us back to normal. Yet, job creation is garbage. We have cargo ships backed up at the ports. COVID protocols have slowed the distribution of goods, and now the global supply chain is under threat. On top of this fail sundae, we have a stunning number of Americans who simply want a national divorce. It's not just Trump supporters either, which brings us to some very nasty questions about where this could go.
We've seen this in the movies. It's the purge, albeit one that lasts more than 24 hours. And no, this won't be a peaceful dissolution should this occur. More than half of Trump supporters want to break away from the US of A. More shocking is the number of Biden supporters—41 percent "somewhat agree" that it's time to secede. It's why the good Col. Kurt Schlichter says to buy guns and ammo right now if you can, right? Could you kill your neighbor? It's a nasty question that no one except serial killers and psychopaths thinks about daily, but in this situation—anything and everything falls within the realm of possibility. One would hope we never come to this, but the fact that a large swath of the country thinks it's time for a breakup means that a collapse could be in our future. We shouldn't be shocked. It's happened before.
The American Civil War was based on our failure to resolve the issue of slavery peacefully. We had the Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850, and the concept of popular sovereignty to try and settle this issue—all led to bloodshed. And finally, it led to our bloodiest war—the American Civil War—where our government did collapse. Unlike what you hear in the liberal media, this was our only constitutional crisis. Both sides didn't want to budge. Both sides felt compromising would threaten their respective cultures. Right now, we do have two cultures—it's normal people versus "woke" clowns. It's sentient beings versus the lizard people.
The oddity here is that the "woke" are the minority. Not even liberal Democrats are in their camp. They think they're nuts. Bill Maher, former New York Times op-ed writer Bari Weiss, former Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi, liberal reporter Michael Tracey—the list goes on and on of hardcore liberals who think these people are insane. Their position is clear: "We're liberal…just not communist like you people."
But the progressive ethos is authoritarian in nature. All must submit or be destroyed, and it can turn on a dime. As more NBA players express skepticism over the COVID vaccine, look how progressive America has treated them. They're all now considered anti-vaxx conspiracy theorists who got all their information from Trump press conferences. It's insane—and untrue. Maybe that's the wild card here from a pure crack up—that enough liberals who don't like the woke agenda simply rebel against it. It just takes one devastating election defeat to render these clowns irrelevant. Could it happen in 2024? We'll see.
Yet, you cannot dismiss how messy this has become. We're so divided that most Americans, Biden and Trump supporters alike, think about secession. Bringing it back into the arena of bloodshed, we do have two cultures. It's not hard to see. Just listen to the folks around you. I live in a deep-blue area—there are times where I want to jump off a bridge. You saw this during the COVID lockdowns. Liberal America, which is rich, educated, and most have the capability to work from home, didn't get that the rest of the country doesn't have that luxury. I was fortunate, yes. I can do my job from…anywhere, yet I also wasn't blind to the former fact, and I certainly wasn't going to denigrate those who wanted to get back to work long after it was realized the lockdowns didn't work. People who wanted to reopen to feed their families were accused of being white supremacists.
Yet, Karol Markowicz of the New York Post had a good column about how a national divorce can't happen even if we do dream of it now and then:
All good points, but the era of debate is over. If not, it's bleeding out like Tim Roth's character—Mr. Orange—in "Reservoir Dogs." We don't like each other. We think each side is insane, though only one side—the Left—truly is unhinged. We share nothing in common.
The Democrats want to shred constitutional norms to pass a $3.5 trillion left-wing agenda action item list. In doing so, the response has been Republican voters feeling that going outside so-called democratic norms to accomplish goals might be necessary. Democrats feel the same way. It's nowhere near the numbers on the national divorce, but the mid-20s in terms of percentages is a bit high in a nation that's often viewed as one that would never go down this road.
Is civil war next? I don't think it's the next stop, but we're not far from it if we keep going like this, right?
Madeline Leesman
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