Week after week, ever since I introduced disunion here ( my June 3, 2022 disunion post ), new evidence screams to Americans that the right wing has brought us to a state of emergency. I keep monitoring the news and blog pages looking for new adherents to what I now believe -that disunion is where we are headed. When the critical mass of adherents is reached, the numbers will probably explode.
But at this stage, still “deer in the headlights” for most people, not many are thinking that far ahead yet.
The Supreme Court is already taking us there, so finishing the process will become very, very sensible. For example, in blue cities stranded in red states, federal programs that make life tolerable in spite of ultraconservative state government will soon be eliminated by the Supreme Court, so the citizens will already be depopulating those cities and moving to blue states. So there is no argument that disunion will cause that flight from those cities. -It will already have been underway before disunion.
And, we should not assume the window of opportunity for a peaceful disunion will stay open very long. -50% of Republicans want disunion now, simply because they despise us, and they have not yet started tasting blood. When they start tasting blood, they will be against disunion, because it will allow blue states to escape the terrorism and persecution they will unleash.
So, I think disunion discussion and implementation should begin now, and should really ramp up as soon as they take congress again on November 8th. Once they steal the presidency in 2024, it will be too late, because the Republicans will no longer be for disunion, but instead will be for keeping the rest of the population trapped in their dictatorship so they can be tormented.
Disunion will still have to happen, even if it can’t be done before 2024. But after that, it will have to be done via civil war, with the blue places declaring independence, and then being attacked by the Republicans with all the hundreds of millions of guns they already have. I can’t think of how urban populations can arm by then to resist the thugs, since the thugs had such a head start, arming themselves ever since about 1977, when the NRA became a radical lobbying group instead of a gun safety group. So I fear it will not be a civil war at all, but rather an ideological, religious, ethnic, and racial cleansing, and a holocaust, in all our cities.”
-I said these things because I live just north of Orlando, Florida every winter. So, I just witnessed the wrath rained down on Disney by DeSantis, and his other vengeful recent actions. This is the kind of autocrat that would definitely want his enemies trapped in a 50 state dictatorship rather than wanting any kind of peaceful disunion.
Finally, here is a bit of evidence I noticed today showing the new zeitgeist is permeating the United States:
The list of new books available at Oakwood Library suddenly includes three biographies about resistors to fascism in Europe eighty years ago. -People know in their bones we are on the verge of reliving that nightmare here. They know after the horrifying details we saw in this week’s January 6th hearings, the Taliban-like Supreme Court decisions Friday and the day before, and the clear indications that Republicans want MORE gun violence, not less, because it causes the chaos they want to spread, which is a PURE fascist tactic.
And let’s not forget the vivid horror of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine which also saturates the news every day, showing the kind of hell Republicans support, and reminding us that their cult leader Trump fawned over Putin during his entire four years, and still does.
Here are more numbers I have calculated to illustrate the strength of the argument that disunion should happen:
If the 20 reddest US states form their own country, the 20 states that stretch from Alabama to Idaho, the remaining 30 US states will be divided into 7 in the west and 23 in the east.
All you need to do to see how good it will be to unload these 20 states is look at what the current Senate would be if they were gone…
Of the 60 seats, It would be 48/12 Democrats! That is 80 percent!
With unity like that, almost immediately we could have Congress pass anti-gerrymandering and other election reforms, so the remaining badly gerrymandered swing states in the 30 (Ohio, North Carolina, Florida) could soon get rid of their unrepresentative state governments. That is just the tip of the iceberg.
And if we would also admit DC and Puerto Rico as new states in our new blue country, this would give us 52 of the 64 Senate seats, which is over 81 percent!
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