Civil Peace?
By Rick Boettger
The two-party system has split us into two Americas, whether we want to admit it or not.George Washington and John Adams were right. Parties have torn us apart, exactly as they predicted.* When the Blues won, Reds stormed the Capitol. When the Reds just won, listen to Kamala Harris’ “concession” speech:
“I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign—the fight: the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people. A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up….. only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
While, yes, this may be beautifully inspirational, it’s basically telling the winners that she thinks they are against “freedom…opportunity…fairness…
No one is going to kiss and make up. This disastrous, abusive marriage is not going to have any magical make-up sex. The Dems have taken their mommy-party trope into battered-wife syndrome, refusing to consider a divorce no matter the bruises and broken bones.
As I’ve been saying for a long time, best to take Marjorie Taylor Greene up on her offer to let the Dems go. By now, the Blues are just the Reds’ bitch, paying more to the government, state by state, than they in their coastal wealth get back. It may be too late, especially as the Blues right now, consistent with getting everything wrong politically in elections, continue to make self-destructive policies with whatever power they have left.
Imagine a Blue State of America, including the West Coast, Northeast, and little brother Canada linking the two. Not only will it enjoy secure Social Security and Medicare, but single payer health for all, free college tuition and childcare. And support for transgender rights can go all the way without it costing any Blue elections.
The Reds can look forward to getting rid not only of the income tax but the whole IRS, and any restriction on financial activities; to the return of coal and unlimited oil drilling, with no pesky environmental regulations. Of course, no abortions, while the Blues pass them out like party favors. Prayer in ALL the schools, maybe getting rid of public schooling completely.
My single-issue in this election, and I think I am alone in America, was the very real nuclear danger posed by our active killing of Russians in Ukraine. Because of the Blues’ love of that war, I voted for the party that is against it, the Greens, even changing my registration for the first time. I couldn’t vote for Trump on moral grounds, but I would have voted for JD Vance if he were at the top of the ticket (also, a fellow Yale Law guy and lower middle classer). I continue my prediction that the war will end with Russia staying in the Crimea and Russian sympathizers allowed to govern the Donbas, instead of being assassinated by Western Ukrainians. And Putin will NOT march into Poland or any other NATO country. Moldova’s Transnistria wants Russia, and will likely drag the impoverished part of Moldova along with them, but that’s the end of the Dominoes the Left constantly predicts will fall, just as‘70’s Dems predicted about Vietnam.
So the Blue states can continue to kill civilians in Russia in the proud defense of a country that means nothing to us, to support a more repressive regime than in Orban’s Hungary. The Reds will avoid nuclear war, while instead sending their weapons to Taiwan, where we have large real interests.
Remember my list of countries that have split up in our lifetimes, and all been better off for it: Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Pakistan, Sudan (really, it was even worse before). Also, all little countries are even richer than we are: Monaco, Luxembourg, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Qatar–it’s a long list. Small means you fight amongst yourselves less.
We cannot continue to survive with the amount of hate the two party system has fostered. Here’s what John and George said about it from the beginning:
*“There is nothing I dread So much, as a Division of the Republick into two great Parties, each arranged under its Leader, and concerting Measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble Apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political Evil, under our Constitution,” Said John Adams in 1780.
George Washington elaborated in his Farewell Address: “I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state,…The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption…”
My goodness, I’ve heard of this in general before, but never looked it up until now. “Spirit of revenge…” “Seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual…” The last three sentences should be as commonly memorized as the Gettysburg Address: “mischiefs…distract and enfeeble…agitates with .. ill founded jealousies…
If we were to have not a civil war, like that silly movie, but a split like those in Europe, damn, I’d have to take better care of myself to stay alive long enough to watch it play out. I can only dream.
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