{"id":1555679,"date":"2022-07-15T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555679"},"modified":"2022-07-15T07:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:04:34","slug":"kurt-schlichter-is-it-time-for-a-national-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kurt-schlichter-is-it-time-for-a-national-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Schlichter: Is It Time for a National Divorce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkurt-schlichter-is-it-time-for-a-national-divorce%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555679&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sometimes you stay together for the kids, and other times you just have to get out of an abusive and destructive relationship. That\u2019s how a lot of conservatives feel about being stuck with progressives in this relationship we call \u201cAmerica.\u201d They want to pack their Schiff and move out, buy a condo and a Porsche, and hopefully find love again with someone younger, prettier, and less pinko. We\u2019re not perfect, we conservatives, but in this analogy we are Johnny Depp and the Democrats are Amber Heard, right down to her Nadlering the bed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I talk about what a national divorce might look like at length in a chapter of my new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2022\/07\/12\/excerpt-well-be-back-n2610101\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">We\u2019ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America<\/a>, and it\u2019s not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYet, if anything, the last couple decades have taught us that the worst-case scenario can happen. Therefore, let\u2019s examine what it might look like if all these things came to pass and America decided that its next destination was Splitsville.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The basic notion is that the red people would take their part of the community property and the blues their portion and they would go and live in separate parts of the U.S.A. Fortunately, as we all know, divvying up the pot in a divorce is never, ever, ever a giant hassle that becomes an endless, massive battle and ends unsatisfactorily for everyone except the lawyers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dividing polities is hard, and there are not too many examples from recent history to look to in order to see how to do it with minimal hassle. You do want to look to the Balkans, but as a cautionary example. Yugoslavia\u2019s breakup devolved into a massive civil war. That mess was still sucking in U.S. forces during the Trump administration when Ric Grenell finally negotiated something like peace between Kosovo and Serbia. If we wished to divorce, we should carefully review how they broke up Josip Tito\u2019s territory and then do the opposite.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Soviet Union, the Humpty-Dumpty of international communism, had a great fall. Now, of course, all the ex-KGB men are trying to put it back together again. Well, how\u2019s that whole Ukraine thing working out for you, Vlad?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A national divorce is an idea born of frustration \u2013 our frustration with the Democrats being nimrods and the Democrats\u2019 frustration with us not accepting that we are serfs whose purpose is to serve them and obey their whims. It seems superficially easier to just split up with people who are so fundamentally different in how they see the world and our respective places in it \u2013 for example, red Americans see themselves being left alone and blue Americans sees us normal people on our backs with the pinkos\u2019 Birkenstocks pressing down on our throats.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Now, there are some National Divorce Lite scenarios out there, like maybe we abolish the Electoral College, or get rid of the Senate. In these scenarios, we red people are not sent away. We are just disenfranchised and neutered, effectively castrated into a nation of submissive Mitts, but fear not \u2013 we would still be available to do the labor, soldiering, and tax paying that the left needs from us. We\u2019d be that horse in \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d \u2013 hardworking, silent, and shipped off to some artisanal glue factory when we stop being useful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nah.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But there is no escaping that the red and blue components of America\u2019s citizenry are developing mutually exclusive notions of how to run this joint venture that make our conflicts nearly, if not completely, impossible to solve to everyone\u2019s satisfaction. Our differences are too profound.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The blues believe that it is a good idea to have weirdos, losers, and mutations grooming our kids in the classroom. We disagree.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We reds think America is great, and the blues despise it as well as other Americans.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The blues think we should worship the false pagan weather goddess and sacrifice our freedom and possessions to her by giving these up to them. We think we\u2019ll keep our Silverados, rib-eyes, and liberty, thank you.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The blues think we reds are racist, sexist, and transphobic. We think the blues are extremely tiresome.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We reds think that every real man should own an \u201cassault rifle\u201d or four. The blues dispute that there is such thing as \u201cmen\u201d and would be against them if there were. The thought of guns outside the hands of the Democrat criminal constituencies or the left\u2019s corrupt law enforcement flunkies makes them cry.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These are stark and perhaps irreconcilable differences. So what if we did split up? How would it work in practice? As <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2022\/07\/12\/excerpt-well-be-back-n2610101\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">We\u2019ll Be Back<\/a> observes:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cRed America would likely track the present Constitution, being conservative and all. But there would be alterations. The revised version would do things like modify the Second Amendment to add \u2018No, we\u2019re not kidding\u2014everyone gets to pack heat, and that includes assault rifles.\u2019 Maybe they would undo the Seventeenth Amendment and end direct election of senators. Expect that the word \u2018abortion\u2019 would finally get into the Constitution, except it would be in the context of banning it starting at the time of the first date.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Blue America constitution would be a different kind of abortion. The left, which is smarter and wiser and more moral than the dead white slave owners who were the framers\u2014just ask them\u2014would toss out the U.S. Constitution in favor of something written by a bunch of college professors gone wild. Say goodbye to those irritating negative rights that prevent the government from doing stuff to its citizens. Say hi to positive rights about all the things government is going to do for its subjects.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And you will see all the rights the old one had, except to keep and bear arms, of course. You\u2019ll have freedom of speech and of the press and of religion. They will just add a whole bunch of asterisks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The fact is that without our influence, the American left would go full Stalin, and you never, ever go full Stalin. With their own country sharing our continent, the blues would turn America into the world\u2019s most oppressive college campus and then would immediately blame their myriad woes on red America. And that is a recipe for trouble. We\u2019re all stuck on the same continent, and that\u2019s too close for comfort. What we need is some constitutional marriage counseling because there\u2019s a big chance that a national divorce would make all our problems a hundred times worse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conservatives Must Stand Together and Fight Back Against the Radical Left Looking to Destroy Our Great Country. 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