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pbmus's Journal
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December 3, 2020

I am not kidding...

I know people think I'm kidding. I'm not. The trajectory of America is clear. We have one party divorced from reality, willing to cripple government and attack democracy, ignoring oversight laws, and a system that allows for their minority rule. No country can survive this.../1
...which means: It is time to break up America. Putin wins. East and West coasts can be one country (we are divided from Alaska by Canada, so...not unprecedented.) Let each state vote where it wants to go. One time subsidies from each country allowing residents to move once.../2
...I know people think "This is insane!" No, it's not. For much of my life, the Soviet Union was an impenetrable fortress, a monolith. Then, it fell and broke into multiple countries. The unsustainable is not sustainable. Red America hates blue America. They want to kill us..../3
...and the GOP stays silent, because its craven, anti-America leadership - like @RonJohnsonWI confessed - will allow democracy to be torn down if they get to keep their jobs. *This is unsustainable.* Let red America care for themselves. They'd be in for a shock about how much...4

money they get from blue states. Yes, living beside an impoverished, poorly educated, anti-science theocracy would be difficult, but it's what they want.

We can choose to do it. Or, as happened with Soviet Union, wait until it cant hold. But what we have is unsustainable.
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