Almost all young people, most females and a minority of males are lacking the genetic material or brain development to recognize when they are being dangerously assimilated into the collective. These are people easily captured and programmed. Most adult males are prone to a level of distrust of the collective and have the developed capacity to think clearly and critically about the dangers of being assimilated into the collective. Maybe this an evolutionary thing. Maybe it is biological.
The great political divide is really male vs female, patriarchy vs matriarchy and free democracy vs socialist collective. The communists have something to do with this. Money in the global economy... and Wall Street... have something to do with this. The greed of the top 10% have something to do with this. Radical feminists have something to do with this. The changes to the economy that have gutted male economic opportunity while advancing females has something to do with this. The corruption of the education system has something to do with it. The collapse of journalist ethics and standards have something to do with this. Tech... social media and algorithms have something to do with this.
Democrats are the primary party to perpetuate all this... as under Obama the party corrupted into a complete backroom backstabbing and dark money enterprise with a strategy of winning by assimilating the easily influenced while destroying the competition in the media and NGO networks... and no longer attempting to sell their left ideas that the American public generally did not like.
Liberals are gaslit idiots. Their media feeds have put them in a collective trance and constantly inflame their hate, resentment and anger. The are all bipolar... either irrationally exuberant about a candidate like Joe Biden winning the election, or irrationally sad, angry and depressed that Trump won. They are people with very low emotional regulation capacity.
But I remain hopeful. Liberals are screaming for a divorce from conservatives are doing so in alarm because their entire corrupt infrastructure is being dismantled by Trump. Young people are jumping ship. Minorities are jumping ship. The collective cult is failing and just as you would expect in any real cult, cutting off its snake head leaves the cultist members stuck in disbelief and resistance to finally accepting the truth over their previous programming.
We are left with a situation where again; liberals are at best 20% of the population and politically irrelevant. The only risk here is because of what the liberal collective has done to damage the world so significantly, that there is an over-shoot of correction that looks something like Sharia Law.
I'm from Texas, so _OF COURSE_ I think we should secede, LOL. Jokes aside....
We used to have this worked out, it was called "federalism". I think we should go back to that.
If we can't, I think we should seriously consider splitting the country. Everyone will be happier. Conservatives can live like they want, liberals can live like they want. There is no reason for it to end up in civil war.
The main problem as I see it is social security and dividing up the national debt. The practical details are very tricky.
I think we also need to seriously think through national defense. In principle I'm all in for the West Coast to secede...but what happens when, after they do, the PLA shows up and declares they've come to "protect" California et al from "American hegemonism"?
That would suck. And not just for us: for all our Pacific basin allies, too.
Wow! This could stir up a hornet's nest in a national conversation! Hope you youngsters can find some cool heads for the discussion. Another great piece, John.
Before anything else, I absolutely agree with everything you've argued here.
That being said, what's the play when the Other Side--whoever that might be under the circumstances--starts making moves that you and the side you're on perceive as invasive of your liberties, a slow slide into totalitarianism, or similar? How long do you say to yourself, well, it will all work out, God willing (or whoever those other guys invoke in lieu of the Big Guy)?
Years ago, I read a story about Joshua Chamberlain, at the time the President of Bowdoin, who hosted a dinner party for a well-known, well-respected Southern scholar. Afterward Chamberlain wrote that they had a superb, erudite, impeccably respectful and polite evening's conversation...and that he was now firmly convinced that it was impossible to escape the coming storm by conventional political compromise.
Should the South have knuckled under to the unendurable? For that matter, should the incoming Republican administration have allowed them to separate peacefully?
Or how about the North? There were serious discussions during the Pierce and Buchanan years in the New England states about secession from what appeared to be an increasingly pervasive pro-slavery national regime. Should they have simply said, nowt to be done, let them take over?
It's all very well to say these things in the abstract. But non-violence is a commitment regardless of the circumstances. That would include when your own offspring are being beaten, raped and killed. Are you ready to roll over to that?
Because I'm not.
A national divorce would undoubtedly lead to terrible things: we have the example of the Partition of India in 1948 as a guide (estimated dead: two million. Estimated displaced persons: 20 million). But...compared to what? Sure...the Indians and the Pakistanis go to bed every night with one eye open and one hand on their weapons. But is that better or worse than subjugation, annihilation...or both?
I think it's very possible all of this will end up violence, bloodshed, a dictatorship, a secession, etc. If it does, I'd like to be on the winning side. However, I don't have any illusions that would be better than what we currently have. So, I hope more people will realize that, take their neighbors into consideration, and not do anything that will lead us to that point. I think conservatives will have a much easier time of it than liberals, who seem completely incapable of empathy when it comes to anyone they disagree with.
A few years back--in 2020, right before COVID--I moved out of the National Capital Region, where I'd lived and put down roots for almost 40 years (June 1981 to May 2020) and relocated to St. Petersburg FL. Still living there. Smartest move I ever made.
I figure DeSantis and our legislature will buy us some time, and it doesn't hurt that we're behind the "glacis" provided by Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
As you might imagine I've reached the age when it's "one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel" as my father used to say. So I assume I'll be pushing up daisies by the time The End comes...
Almost all young people, most females and a minority of males are lacking the genetic material or brain development to recognize when they are being dangerously assimilated into the collective. These are people easily captured and programmed. Most adult males are prone to a level of distrust of the collective and have the developed capacity to think clearly and critically about the dangers of being assimilated into the collective. Maybe this an evolutionary thing. Maybe it is biological.
The great political divide is really male vs female, patriarchy vs matriarchy and free democracy vs socialist collective. The communists have something to do with this. Money in the global economy... and Wall Street... have something to do with this. The greed of the top 10% have something to do with this. Radical feminists have something to do with this. The changes to the economy that have gutted male economic opportunity while advancing females has something to do with this. The corruption of the education system has something to do with it. The collapse of journalist ethics and standards have something to do with this. Tech... social media and algorithms have something to do with this.
Democrats are the primary party to perpetuate all this... as under Obama the party corrupted into a complete backroom backstabbing and dark money enterprise with a strategy of winning by assimilating the easily influenced while destroying the competition in the media and NGO networks... and no longer attempting to sell their left ideas that the American public generally did not like.
Liberals are gaslit idiots. Their media feeds have put them in a collective trance and constantly inflame their hate, resentment and anger. The are all bipolar... either irrationally exuberant about a candidate like Joe Biden winning the election, or irrationally sad, angry and depressed that Trump won. They are people with very low emotional regulation capacity.
But I remain hopeful. Liberals are screaming for a divorce from conservatives are doing so in alarm because their entire corrupt infrastructure is being dismantled by Trump. Young people are jumping ship. Minorities are jumping ship. The collective cult is failing and just as you would expect in any real cult, cutting off its snake head leaves the cultist members stuck in disbelief and resistance to finally accepting the truth over their previous programming.
We are left with a situation where again; liberals are at best 20% of the population and politically irrelevant. The only risk here is because of what the liberal collective has done to damage the world so significantly, that there is an over-shoot of correction that looks something like Sharia Law.
I'm from Texas, so _OF COURSE_ I think we should secede, LOL. Jokes aside....
We used to have this worked out, it was called "federalism". I think we should go back to that.
If we can't, I think we should seriously consider splitting the country. Everyone will be happier. Conservatives can live like they want, liberals can live like they want. There is no reason for it to end up in civil war.
The main problem as I see it is social security and dividing up the national debt. The practical details are very tricky.
I think we also need to seriously think through national defense. In principle I'm all in for the West Coast to secede...but what happens when, after they do, the PLA shows up and declares they've come to "protect" California et al from "American hegemonism"?
That would suck. And not just for us: for all our Pacific basin allies, too.
Wow! This could stir up a hornet's nest in a national conversation! Hope you youngsters can find some cool heads for the discussion. Another great piece, John.
Before anything else, I absolutely agree with everything you've argued here.
That being said, what's the play when the Other Side--whoever that might be under the circumstances--starts making moves that you and the side you're on perceive as invasive of your liberties, a slow slide into totalitarianism, or similar? How long do you say to yourself, well, it will all work out, God willing (or whoever those other guys invoke in lieu of the Big Guy)?
Years ago, I read a story about Joshua Chamberlain, at the time the President of Bowdoin, who hosted a dinner party for a well-known, well-respected Southern scholar. Afterward Chamberlain wrote that they had a superb, erudite, impeccably respectful and polite evening's conversation...and that he was now firmly convinced that it was impossible to escape the coming storm by conventional political compromise.
Should the South have knuckled under to the unendurable? For that matter, should the incoming Republican administration have allowed them to separate peacefully?
Or how about the North? There were serious discussions during the Pierce and Buchanan years in the New England states about secession from what appeared to be an increasingly pervasive pro-slavery national regime. Should they have simply said, nowt to be done, let them take over?
It's all very well to say these things in the abstract. But non-violence is a commitment regardless of the circumstances. That would include when your own offspring are being beaten, raped and killed. Are you ready to roll over to that?
Because I'm not.
A national divorce would undoubtedly lead to terrible things: we have the example of the Partition of India in 1948 as a guide (estimated dead: two million. Estimated displaced persons: 20 million). But...compared to what? Sure...the Indians and the Pakistanis go to bed every night with one eye open and one hand on their weapons. But is that better or worse than subjugation, annihilation...or both?
I think it's very possible all of this will end up violence, bloodshed, a dictatorship, a secession, etc. If it does, I'd like to be on the winning side. However, I don't have any illusions that would be better than what we currently have. So, I hope more people will realize that, take their neighbors into consideration, and not do anything that will lead us to that point. I think conservatives will have a much easier time of it than liberals, who seem completely incapable of empathy when it comes to anyone they disagree with.
Amen to that, brother. Amen to that.
A few years back--in 2020, right before COVID--I moved out of the National Capital Region, where I'd lived and put down roots for almost 40 years (June 1981 to May 2020) and relocated to St. Petersburg FL. Still living there. Smartest move I ever made.
I figure DeSantis and our legislature will buy us some time, and it doesn't hurt that we're behind the "glacis" provided by Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
As you might imagine I've reached the age when it's "one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel" as my father used to say. So I assume I'll be pushing up daisies by the time The End comes...