At the end of the last installment of this essay I said:<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the stalemate between the Left and Right is maddening to anyone who wants this country fixed.\u00a0 We seem to be at a dead end.\u00a0 What\u2019s the answer?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n I think the answer is we\u2019re not one nation.\u00a0 We\u2019re at least two (and maybe several more than two) nations trapped in the same constitutional system that requires unanimity.\u00a0 The people who are the majority in the blue states and the people who are the majority in the red states want diametrically opposite things.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just that they disagree on the details of how things should be run.\u00a0 They want different realities on the ground.<\/p>\n Right now, people in Minnesota, Illinois, New York and California are actively conspiring to battle ICE agents to prevent them from fulfilling their lawful duty to deport illegal immigrants.\u00a0 And while Biden was in the White House, he used his office to allow illegal immigrants to enter the United States in the millions.\u00a0 These two examples underscore that the two major political positions in this country have no middle ground and cannot find a way forward that will satisfy both sides.<\/p>\n And this is just one of a large number of issues that are irreconcilable differences between the Left and Right.\u00a0 Social, economic and moral differences exist and will not go away.\u00a0 What seems clear to me is that some change is needed to allow the different groups to exist separately and peacefully on the same continent.<\/p>\n And actually, that doesn\u2019t seem to be a difficult situation to create.\u00a0 Look at the present situation between Canada and the United States.\u00a0 If you met people living on either side of the US\/Canada border (say between Ontario and New York State) you probably couldn\u2019t tell them apart if they were mixed in a room.\u00a0 They\u2019re essentially the same culturally and even ethnically.\u00a0 They belong to two separate countries.\u00a0 But they can cross back and forth over the border and the companies that do business around there can buy and sell their services on both sides of this border.<\/p>\n The same kind of arrangement would be possible between two or more successor states existing where the United States is now.\u00a0 The only thing that would change would be the status of citizens in each of these new states.\u00a0 Citizens of the blue states wouldn\u2019t be citizens of the red states and vice versa.\u00a0 So, no one would be moving from California to Texas anymore without the equivalent of a green card.\u00a0 Now theoretically the blue states would have this open border mentality and would allow anyone in the world including red state citizens to just settle in their country willy-nilly like they do now.\u00a0 But I predict that once the split is made the blue states will change their immigration policy at least with respect to the red states for spite.\u00a0 Which is fine.\u00a0 But I would guess that once they aren\u2019t spiting the red states through their open border policies anymore, they\u2019ll probably re-evaluate how happy they are with this status quo.<\/p>\n But immigration is only one aspect of what would drive a separation between the red and the blue areas of this country.\u00a0 We can talk about social issues and whether this would cause a separation into two nations or possibly more in the next installment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the end of the last installment of this essay I said: \u201cAnd the stalemate between the Left and Right is maddening to anyone who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2784,970,2520],"class_list":["post-35747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-a-house-divided","tag-left-right-split","tag-red-state-blue-state"],"yoast_head":"\n