The Idea of a National Divorce/Splitting Up the Country

I think there's a great chance it will when the Boomers die off. Millennials and Gen Z are overwhelmingly liberal, some to a militant extent. Just in the company I work at I don't know a single worker under 40 who is a conservative. Given I'm only a fiscal conservative but I align with conservatives in general a little more than liberals (you'll be surprised but technically I have no party affiliation and consider myself a true libertarian). But I think when Millennials and Gen Z take over we will essentially have one party rule in most areas of the country. The few areas that Republicans control won't be enough to make any real difference. The Republican party will cease to be a major political party.

 

I really am starting to believe this is the case. They get off on trying to dominate the flyover states and they enjoy looking down on the middle of the country. They are arrogant and truly believe they are better that the people away from the coasts.

I also think they are secretly really scared that a southern country would work just fine and that a southern and midwestern country would actually be a pretty big power house. I think they secretly fear the idea of the middle of the country waking up and realizing the coastal areas of the country really aren't needed. The middle of the country controls the water, agriculture and energy of this country and the coastal elites don't want the middle of the country to ever truly realize that.

 

So basically you just want the Republicans to become Democrat lite. Just admit it. Republicans now are already further to the left than they were generations ago, it will never be enough.

Just like how when Republicans win the Presidency or Congress it's always "Republicans need to cross the aisle, Republicans need to govern from the center" whereas when Democrats win the Presidency or Congress it's always "Democrats have been given a message, elections have consequences".

The Democrats are moving to the left because Millennials and Gen Z are moving to the left. Heck my oldest nephew is a Democrat and flat out wants Socialism and he's not t he first Gen Z say that.

 

So then let the states leave. Let Texas leave. Let the conservative states vote on secession and if it passes let them leave. By your argument if many of the southern and midwestern states leave the U.S. will be better for it. No longer having to pay for those freeloading states right? Why fight to keep them then if they add nothing to the U.S.?

 

I know they are dems lite. That's why I'm a Libertarian and not a Republican. Essentially you want them to essentially be Democrats while Democrats become Socialists. So then the choice becomes either left or extreme left. Either way liberals win and it's essentially one party rule.

 

I mean you are right. I think a National Divorce is possible but it would be ungodly expensive. Like you said a Civil War probably wouldn't be as expensive but of course a Civil War would be far more bloody with hundreds of thousands dead. A National Divorce would at least avoid that.

 

That's funny considering I haven't voted for a Republican or Democrat for any office since 2004. I was dumb enough in the first election I voted in to follow what my parents did and voted for W. That was the last time I ever made that mistake and voted for any Republican or Democrat.