Ever since Marjorie Taylor Green expressed her desire for a “National Divorce” I’ve been wondering about the idea. I’ve written many times about the difficulty of reconciling with the Rabid Right and living in a country full of Trump supporters. How their opposition blocks America from moving forward. How they present further threats of Racism, Sexism and Fascism within the country. How they live in a land a denial and delusion. How their battle against Social Justice and Wokism may be our final battlefield.
Suppose that was no longer the case? Suppose all of the problems that these people create could be solved very simply.
Just give them their own states to screw up as they will? Don't have a Civil War, don’t have a fight over it. At a certain level, we want to be as rid of them as they want to be on their own. So maybe, we should just let them go. Kick them the fuck out.
As one friend of mine said to me when I broached the subject: “Partition those fools and then nuke them.”
Ok, maybe we wouldn't need to go exactly that far. But I kinda get the sense that our side of the aisle is kinda sick of these people. Just a bit. I frankly think the result would turn out like a mashup between The Man in the High Tower, The Hunger Games and The Handmaid’s Tale.
This is just a thought experiment, not an actual suggestion. But what would it take to finally push us over the edge? Just how fucked up would their behavior have to get for us to finally pull the plug and send them packing?
Well, suppose that after Biden wins re-election in 2024 over Trump, who is out on bail and appeal for his multiple convictions of election fraud, business fraud, defamation, conspiracy and obstruction, the Right totally completely flips the fuck out. They don’t just try to stage an assault on the Capitol this time, they stage an all-out terrorist attack on the White House. This time they’re met with deadly force by Secret Service. But a few agents are hesitant. A few hold back, consequently a small contingent of insurgents actually enter the building and head for the Oval. The President is hustled to a bunker under the building. The battle rages, several members of the White House staff are injured, some are killed.
Ultimately the attackers get close to the bunker and launch a gas attack against the ventilation system. All those remaining in the bunker perish, including the remaining attackers and the President.
Secondary assaults soon take place targetting key Democrats and Progressives all over the nation. Nancy Pelosi’a home in San Francisco is again attacked but the assault is thwarted by a newly hired set of private security forces who were brought on after her retirement as Speaker. Newly minted Senator Adam Schiff is also targeted and injured but manages to survive an attack on his offices in Beverly Hills. Jamie Raskin is killed on the way to his doctor for a cancer checkup. Ilhan Omar is assassinated in Minnesota, but AOC manages to barely survive an armed assault in New York. The New York Times is firebombed. Multiple shootings take place at FBI field offices around the nation. Graffiti stating “This is The Storm” is left behind at places of the attacks.
Vice President Harris takes command and declares a national emergency. Cracking through secure chats and logs indicates that the attack was part of a wide-ranging well-planned assault that involved active duty military, members of the various Southen State National Guards regiments, Qanon members, as well as The Boogaloo Bois, and Patriot Front. Surveillance and subpoena indicate that the entire assault was authorized by a coordinated coalition of governors — including Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Greg Abbott — who authorized members of their guard to implement and lead the attacks, with inside knowledge and coordination by dozens of members of their state legislatures and members of Congress.
Wrongly, they had attempted to take out both Biden and Harris believing that the Presidency would then fall to Trump as the defeated adversary (or to Speaker McCarthy), but last-minute changes to the plan had pulled Harris away and back to the Naval Observatory.
President Harris briefly declares Martial Law, and orders the militias of the twelve most Southern States from Texas to Florida up to North Carolina to stand down and for their Governors to surrender. The complicit members of congress are expelled from the body and arrested. Special Forces execute capture missions over-night at several governors' mansions. Some are taken into custody, but a few escape. Some members of the SCOTUS defect and run south.
When the dust starts to settle, she reluctantly declares that the nation will be partitioned to prevent further acts of terrorism. The GOP is declared a terrorist organization. War is not declared, but the Southern Terrorist States are to be excommunicated and fenced off from the rest of the Country. Democrats and minorities from Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Memphis and other predominantly Democratic cities are given a few short months to flee their homes for sanctuary in the North and West. Many refuse to leave and decide to stick it out. Republicans in the North are given a chance to join the Rogue states. Some are forcibly expelled when they verbally support further terrorism. Then after six months the roads and highways are closed. Flights in and out of the Rogue States are canceled. A temporary fence is put in place while a permanent wall is built.
The Rogues states declare their independence. Trump is declared their President for Life. Mar-A-Lago is the new White House. Tallahassee becomes the center of the Rogue Congress.
They publish a wildly deluded manifesto declaring they are now the Christian States of America, and proceed to begin writing new amendments to their Constitution which deletes the freedom from religion, and the prohibition from “establishment of religion” from their new version of the First Amendment. They delete the “well-regulated militia” from the 2nd Amendment. Delete the 8th Amendment entirely, as well as the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments.
The FBI, CDC, CNN, NASA and Southern-located military bases are rapidly moved out of the Rogue states, leaving behind much of their equipment and resources. Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare and Social Security are all canceled for Rogue State citizens. They are now no longer Americans, they lose their citizenship and all associated rights. The northern states are now easily able to balance their budgets and manage to extend social services to their remaining citizens. They declare that they will pay reparations to the ancestors of the enslaved and survivors of Jim Crow and segregation. Civil Rights laws are enhanced to include LGBTQ individuals with heightened enforcement and civil rights testing measures included to ensure compliance.
Statehood is offered to D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands replacing six slots of the twelve who are expelled bringing the total number of States to 44. Somewhat Red States such as Montana and Idaho remain as a part of the remaining Union in order to keep the states contiguous, however, many more Federal troops are moved to new bases in these states.
The Voting Rights Act is restored, police reform is implemented including removal of qualified immunity and Tennesee V Garner is codified into law meaning that it is now a crime under Federal law for any police officer to unduly injure or kill an unarmed subject under the color of authority.
The North implements greater climate and environmental regulations and investment, all cars are required to be fully electric by 2040. Continued fossil fuel extraction is greatly curtailed. Surveillance of potential Republicans on social media is enhanced. Minor statements cause the FBI and Secret Service to demand FISA warrants by the thousands. Permanent mass surveillance of all social media platforms is authorized by the SCOTUS.
Within the Rogue states Democrats are considered potential “insurgents” and subject to arrest for publically expressing any views with are deemed “anti-Christian”, being critical of the Southen/Rogue states or the Right White People. After being arrested and jailed they are then delivered to the new Northern border and expelled — when they aren’t killed outright by the Southern Military who now stage major assaults against “violent woke mobs.” Protesting against the Rogues States is outlawed. “Free speech” is conditional based on who’s speaking and what they have to say. Bloggers and Media who criticized politicians in the Rogues States are subject to registration, lawsuits and potential arrest for “sedition.” Trump responds to the negative Northern press by declaring that soon the Christian States will have “Freedom Cities” with Flying Cars.
All current gun laws and restrictions would be repealed for gun ownership, even for children. The rates of gun murders — particularly by suicide — in the Rogue states would rapidly skyrocket.
The North establishes a similar policy for terrorists from the Rogue states, but without using the military. Homeland Security, DOJ and FBI are the primary agencies engaged, although some number of their agents defect to the Rogues. Terrorist attacks continue in the North implemented by pockets of criminal militias who operate in the shadows, while largely innocent dissidents are randomly murdered in the south.
Hundreds in the South are killed mysteriously as Rogue military forces are deployed against children and cover stories of their “violence” are concocted. A new underground railroad to smuggle dissidents out of the Rogue states is secretly established by President Harris. Meanwhile more White Supremacist terror groups also attempt to sneak into the North and West for “retribution.”
Schools are now required to have regular periods of prayer and a corrected and “proper" curriculum is established that praises the Rogue states for their Courage and Patriotism against the Woke Marxist Demon Heritics of the North and their Globalist ways. Books by “Marxist (black) and Groomer (LGBTQ)” authors are banned from both schools and public libraries and publically burned. Abortion is completely banned in all forms, including incest, rape and miscarriages subject to the death penalty. Child marriages are authorized and children as young as 16 are put to work. Contraceptives are banned. Rates of teen births, infant mortality and maternal mortality would escalate to level even worse than they already are in the Southern states. Women are discouraged from voting or working except in “properly approved" fields. Trans persons are outlawed and subject to prison. Gay marriage is outlawed, and all gays are expelled from the military and the ability to vote. Blacks and Latinos are tolerated as long as they stay in line, but they also lose the ability to vote because of “election integrity.”
To prevent any “uprising” against the new Rogue authority, roving bands of (white) heavily armed citizens are organized to patrol the streets to prevent any inappropriate “demonstrations.” Arrested dissidents are sent to “Work camps” with Christian re-education centers to help them understand the wrongness of their “Woke ways.”
The Rogues states cancel all their Federal and States taxes, instead opting for a national sales tax of 35%. They declare with their new free workforce of arrested dissidents and heretics that they are now *open* for business with major manufacturers. Car companies from Europe pull their factories out of the Rogue States, but investment money from China, Saudi Arabia and Russia comes streaming in bolstering the limited coffers of the Rogues, saving them from financial catastrophe. Disney considers leaving Disney World, but reconsiders and eventually acquiesces to changing their policy of hiring LGBTQ staff and welcoming LGBTQ guests. Marvel keeps making movies in Atlanta using special Visas to transport actors and crew in and out of the Rogue states. Unions are outlawed. Worker's compensation regulations are canceled. Civil Rights laws are repealed.
Using their new friendly financial relationship with China, Trump manages to negotiate a non-aggression pact with North Korea. Both China and the Saudis begin sharing weapons with Russia staving their collapsing efforts against Ukraine from completely stalling out.
The wall becomes armed with machine-gun-wielding guards on both sides. Keyhole surveillance satellites are directed at the Rogues as well as a full suite of foreign intelligence powers.
With the change in the US Status, President Harris urges Ukraine to be finally brought into the UN and become a member of NATO. Putin considers retaliating with Nukes — but an uprising against such action led by Alexis Navalny’s daughter Daria, who took her father’s place as an activist after his death in prison, disrupts his government and instead forces him to be ousted by the Kremlin and replaced again by Medvedev. Russia finally pulls its forces out of Ukraine.
Trump is temporarily incapacitated after choking on a Chicken McNugget, and his cabinet members finally implement 25th Amendment procedures on him, but their efforts are for naught and the entire cabinet is executed publically in the courtyard of Mar-A-Lago.
President Harris considers implementing yet another Special Forces assault to take Trump into custody for international crimes against humanity and the fact that all his appeals have been exhausted — but she hesitates.
And the carnage continues.
So really this is not a situation that any of us would endorse. This is an absolute nightmare scenario. Working with and tolerating the other side can be annoying and infuriating. But these are the reasons why we put up with it. These are the reasons why we don’t just say “fuck it you bastards, get out.”
Because of all the collateral damage that will happen to the lives of so many millions if we give them what they want. Because they will behave exactly as they’ve clearly shown us they will behave.
And it will be a disaster.
[I am working on my second solo CD and I plan to write the lyrics for it from the perspective of the people living through this great divide on either side. Hopefully, it will go well. Eventually, I may expand this story into a book or another project as I flesh it all out.]
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