Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Her constituents obviously want her. The problem is the harm she does doesn't just fall at the feet of her constituents. And that is why my analogy of what we are as a nation is correct.
The republican party has been lurching further and further right for decades now. In just a few years the entire party will have turned over to people like MTG. And the democrats will STILL be led by people who think there is a reason to be bipartisan. Do you actually believe we will be functioning better politically in a few years? Because if we are not, our country is over. My only hope anymore is we just let it end peacefully and don't bother with Civil War II. Because the other side has about 10 times the firepower as our side. And that is just the civilian end of it.
Peaceful division is a fantasy because we are all mixed up geographically -- the cities are civilized raisins in the doughy cake of rural fascism.
Only thing to do is fight it out in the legislatures and courts. If the orcs turn to violence so much the better since the Plutes and corporations currently on the fence or milking them will instantly move to our side to preserve a predictable market.
There is no way the orcs can win. With fits and starts, people get more educated, more tolerant, and less religious over time. These violent reactionary failures have always been out there in the countryside. They lose steam with every generation.
My suggestion is we immediately stop dragging them along behind us and stopping begging them (and funding them) to try to civilize them. Amputate. End their subsidies. If they want federal dollars make them come hat in hand begging for it, and then lay down the rules where we will oblige: federal election standards, civilized protections of women's and minority rights, gun control, modern education, high state taxes so the federal government doesn't have to do the lifting while their state and local officials free ride.
If they want to be "free," fine, they're free of our help. Enjoy being North American Somalia. We'll cruise by occasionally to rescue a few bright kids and bang their daughters for $3.
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