Only 7? Sounds a bit moderate. It’s interesting how these ideas keep getting circulated but never really catch on beyond the margins. Are that many people really that unhappy with the system? Or are political partisans really just equivalents of sports fans (with “extremists” like the Antifa and Alt-Right merely assuming the role of the football hooligans)?.
By Bonnie Kristian
The Week
Look, we had a good run.
Well, maybe “good” isn’t quite the right word … but certainly it’s been interesting. These United States were a grand experiment. But the experiment has gotten out of hand. It’s time to peacefully dissolve the union.
I know, I know. This is not what good Americans are supposed to suggest. “Four score and seven years ago” and all that. But to borrow a lesser-known phrase from that brief address, it seems to me we have tested whether this nation “can long endure,” and increasingly it is clear it cannot. It’s just not working. Do you really disagree? Do you like the way things are?
We are fresh off a midterm election which has guaranteed two years of gridlock and rancor. But the issues that animated this campaign season are in no sense resolved. David Brooks’ recent diagnosis of “two electorates” conducting entirely separate conversations and motivated by entirely different primal fears remains equally perceptive. Mutual partisan hatred is still nearly total. It is still the case that the sort of person who would attend a Trump rally and one who joined the Women’s March do not wish to share a country with each other.
They may not explicitly say so, but they do come very close. How else should we interpret, “If you don’t like it, leave,” or, “If [candidate] wins, I’m moving to Canada”? However unserious, these are basically expressions of a desire for separate nations. . .
via We should chop America up into 7 different countries. Seriously.
The Most Revolutionary Act 
How British! Divide and conquer! The royals and the City of London, use the United States as mercenaries, China and other low labor regulations and lack of manufacturing controls,then rule the world. Meanwhile, bring in mobs that don’t accept your traditions and laws, then have fun. Some hated the relative freedom earned/ and held by others, so bitterly want to destroy democratic republics, then accept tyranny in any form.
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Marblenecltr, I’m a firm believer in direct democracy and the Articles of Confederation, based on the Iroquois Confederation, a loose-knit confederation of regional self-governing regions. I believe we and our ancestors were ripped off when the Constitution forced an all powerful federal system on us that stripped us of our ability to run our own lives.
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