A National Divorce Where to Start?

To be clear I really didn’t want to talk about this. It’s a culture war talking point. And fails in the face actual scrutiny. So I’ve been trying to hold my tongue all week, but I can’t.

I’ve failed. So here is my opinion on Marjorie Taylor Green’s President’s Day divorce musings. It’s stupid and shows her lack of critical thinking skills on so many levels.

Photo Credit: Illustration by Adrià Fruitós

As I said earlier this is a terrible idea for so many reasons. For one much of the country is supported by so-called ‘blue states.

The reason this is coming up, just like last time, aka the civil war, this is about certain states & the political classes in those states want to impose cultural beliefs that fly in the face of the constitution.

Divorce is an interesting word to use. What Marjorie Taylor Green suggested is not a divorce, it’s not even a sucession, it’s the destruction of the United States. Plain and simple.

When I heard this on President’s Day, yes, the irony abounds I thought about a piece I read in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s first two months in office. Kevin Baker wrote in the ‘The New Republic’ that blue states should “effectively abandon the American national enterprise, as it is currently constituted.”

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Alexandra Henning A Crticial Thinker
Alexandra Henning A Crticial Thinker

Written by Alexandra Henning A Crticial Thinker

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