{"id":35965,"date":"2026-02-04T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=35965"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:50:11","slug":"stalemate-here-and-over-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/stalemate-here-and-over-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalemate Here and Over There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4438744\/nigel-farage-in-charge-tory-defections-reform-mount\/\">Nigel Farage has been the voice of British nationalism for a couple of decades<\/a>.\u00a0 Fourteen years ago, he drove the movement that successfully forced the United Kingdom to exit the European Union; \u201cBrexit.\u201d\u00a0 And he helped the Conservative Party (the Tories) regain their majority and sweep back into power on the basis of his Brexit campaign.<\/p>\n<p>And then these Tories ruled for a decade as the Leftists they truly were.\u00a0 And this allowed the Left (Labor, The Green Party and the Liberal Democrats) to regain control of Parliament and wreak further havoc on the English in their own country.\u00a0 Basically, the Tories and the Left have gone all in on turning Britain into a land of third world immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few years Farage has spearheaded a new party called the Reform.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the chickens have come home to roost.\u00a0 Current polls show voters have the following preferences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reform &#8211; 28%<\/li>\n<li>Labour &#8211; 19%<\/li>\n<li>Tories &#8211; 18%<\/li>\n<li>Greens \u2013 15%<\/li>\n<li>Liberal Democrats &#8211; 13%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interestingly, this new party now leads both traditional parties; Labour and the Tories by about ten percentage points.\u00a0 This just shows how hated both parties have become.\u00a0 But note that neither the Left nor the Right have a solid majority on which to base a coalition.\u00a0 Reform and the Tories together have 46% of the electorate.\u00a0 The three leftist parties; Labour, the Greens and the Liberal Democrats control 47%.\u00a0 So, the remaining seven percent must be made up of people so apathetic they still can\u2019t figure out which side to vote for.\u00a0 Basically, the electoral situation is on the razor\u2019s edge.\u00a0 Now doesn\u2019t that sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>So just as in the United States control of the government oscillates back and forth between the Left and the Right.\u00a0 And each oscillation enrages the partisans out of power and eggs them on to greater and greater revenge when they do return.<\/p>\n<p>Just as in Britain, so too here eventually something has got to give.\u00a0 My guess is that it will eventually cause some large-scale violence and after that there will be a political solution involving a permanent division, either complete or else some constitutional change to give greater autonomy to both sides within the states where majorities for the Left or the Right have firm control.\u00a0 And probably the \u201cpurple\u201d states will have to choose which side they want to get in bed with.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this idea isn\u2019t something I enjoy.\u00a0 The United States is the only home I have ever known.\u00a0 And so many things about it are wonderful.\u00a0 But there is no longer one people living here.\u00a0 There are two.\u00a0 And they believe in diametrically opposed visions of how this country should work.\u00a0 And since the Left is the group trying to change \u201cthe deal,\u201d they are going to have to be the ones excluded from the areas where the Right wants to live.\u00a0 They\u2019re using unlimited third world immigration to drown out their opponents at the polls.\u00a0 So citizenship in the blue states will not be automatically transferrable to the red states.\u00a0 And you can imagine how this will end up becoming very ugly after the initial breakup of the country.\u00a0 Families may end up stuck on both sides of a divided America.\u00a0 But that\u2019s what seems to be coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Farage has been the voice of British nationalism for a couple of decades.\u00a0 Fourteen years ago, he drove the movement that successfully forced the<\/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":[1689,873,1696,2520],"class_list":["post-35965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-brexit","tag-great-britain","tag-nigel-farage","tag-red-state-blue-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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