MTG is calling for a divorce between the red states and the blue states. At first glance, this makes a lot of sense because the Democrats have become radicalized and their lack of morals will never be accepted by the party of common sense.
I, for one, would love to live in an all-red country, but there is a lot that would need to be considered. What about the current national debt? Or Social Security and Medicare?
The national debt would be an albatross around the neck of a new government. Of course, we could default on the debt, but then the government would have a tough time getting loans to carry out even the basics of a new government.
If we cut Medicare and Social Security, it could toss hundreds of thousands into the street. We could cut SSI and Medicaid, after all, people do not contribute a dime to these programs and it makes it harder to support the promises made on Social Security and Medicare.
You also have to realize that in blue states, there are tons of Republicans, and in red states, you have tons of Democrats. So, how would that work?
You couldn’t force people to move. And the Republicans in blue states would see massive increases in taxes and morals would be thrown out the window3 as the new blue state government would write their own constitution and can you imagine what that would look like?
Let’s face it, the only place where Democrats and Republicans can successfully be separated in hell and Heaven.
I fear where it may lead as the government gets more and more powerful. What happens when parents start losing their children for not “affirming” their gender delusions? What happens if liberals break the filibuster one day soon and take away gun rights? How do those kinds of tensions play out?
With that said, a national divorce in the universe we inhabit is probably unworkable. Geographically, political populations are not separated by states. Rather, they are separated by street addresses. There are a ton of Republicans in New York and a ton of Democrats in Florida. The totality of the union also provides for the resources and innovations that have made the United States what it is. There are blue states that contribute and red states that contribute.
In a breakup, who gets the military? Who gets the nukes and technology? Would there be some kind of sharing agreement? What happens to Republicans in blue states? Are they stuck or are they given immediate citizenship to where they want to go? If so, how do you stop blue staters from moving to the new “red” country and eventually turning it into what we already have?
Lastly, and this is what sticks the most with me on this issue, given the march of the left, there’s no reason to believe a “blue” union would leave a “red” union alone. Democrats feed off the gaining and use of tyrannical power. For that reason alone, they’d never agree to a mutual separation, and even if they did, they’d seek to undermine the results anyway.
MTG may have a good idea, but it is unworkable.
