F. George McDuffee wrote:


Such a split is not as far-fetched as it might seem to some
people. However, the basic division is not between/among
anomalous and arbitrary geographical divisions based in part on
historical accidents [i.e. red/blue states] but rather on the
very different general perceptions of reality by residents of
high population density urban areas and everyone else.

Separation or fragmentation may of course follow a socio-economic
implosion as was the case for the USSR, but it may also occur as
a result of differing "views of the future" or sense of what
"ought" as in Czechoslovakia which split into the more urban and
densely populated Czech republic that is now part of the EEC and
Slovakia, less urbanized and more based on the traditional values
of heavy industry and manufacturing.

In many ways, this separation, called the velvet divorce, appears
to have been good for both nations in that it allowed them to
tailor their domestic socio-economic policies to their specific
national needs and concerns. When both were united in
Czechoslovakia, what was good for the urban areas, i.e. Czech
Republic, tended to be not so good for the heavy industry and
manufacturing areas, i.e. Slovakia, and visa versa, so there was
continual national grid-lock and/or contradictory policies.
[Sound familiar?]

After the political separation, an economic union was attempted,
but this promptly imploded when both the economic stimulus [cheap
money] and fiscal responsibility levers were shoved to the
full-on positions at the same time (sort of like engaging the
half-nut and longitudinal feed on a lathe at the same time).
[Sound familiar?]

Although your suggestion was apparently intend as satire, the
time may well have arrived to think the unthinkable, and begin
the process of political divestiture and spin-off if catastrophic
socio-economic failure is to be avoided. Separate nation-states,
with a reasonably homogeneous composition, may be just what is
required, where some can be as "politically correct" as they
desire. It will be however, a rude awakening when the citizens
of these new nations discover that food does not come from the
store, gasoline does not come from the filling station, and money
does not come from the government, no matter how many immigrants
they accept or how many guns they ban.

This would also have the beneficial outcome of relocating the
political leadership far from Washington, D.C. where they are
currently subject to the cumulative toxic effects of Potomac
swamp gas, which induces delusions of omnipotence and a
compulsion to participate in all activities and decisions..


Brilliant!
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Abrasha
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