The national divorce
Call her crazy, but there are a lot of people out there who agree with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
This is the Tweet that began it all:
Although she didn’t talk to me, I can’t say I completely disagree with her, particularly since she extended her remarks to an entire Twitter thread comparing the perception of red states vs. blue states.
I’ve seen the reaction regarding this, especially those who say that her state already lost one war between the states. Her fellow Georgian Erick Erickson thinks she’s batshit crazy on this one, although he makes his case with very minor cussing.
But I believe the divorce MTG wants would be amicable, with the Union surviving. (Moreso than her ruined real-life marriage.) It would almost have to be lest we have millions upon millions of refugees who live in the “wrong” state for their preferences. Look at me: I live in a ruby red area of an overall blue state and I would rather fight than switch.
In the past, legislators from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, frustrated with the direction the state has taken, have submitted proposals to split the state in two, with the eastern half of the state going out on its own. (If it did, it would be the smallest state in the nation, even smaller than Wyoming as the Shore hosts just over 459,000 people.) More recently, there have also been efforts to create the state of Jefferson from territory in northern California and several Oregon counties have expressed their desire to become part of Idaho. I wrote about this myself a couple of years ago after radio host Dan Bongino brought up the idea.
Personally I believe the red states say a lot more about this subject because they’re the ones who are out of power. Perhaps it’s around in some fashion, but you don’t hear people pushing the idea of cities like Austin, St. Louis, New Orleans, Memphis, or Nashville becoming their own city-state because they’re a blue speck in a red state. They know that the federal government is the backstop for their power so they can have their cake and eat it too.
More to the point, though: while our secular nation has credited Abraham Lincoln for proclaiming that a house divided against itself cannot stand, Lincoln was citing a Biblical reference made separately in the books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, as each told the parable Jesus uttered when He was accused of being a devil by casting out evil spirits. Yet Honest Abe was correct: our union fell like a house of cards because slavery and a state’s right to self-determination on the subject were the hills the Confederacy was willing to die on, and eventually that’s what happened.
However, let’s don’t get caught up in the word “divorce” or her personal failings. MTG is correct in saying we are a house divided, and the problem is that neither side wants to back down in addressing the issues. (In my admittedly biased opinion, the “red state” side is much more in the right than the “blue state” side, based on the issues MTG brought up in her diatribe.) Fortunately, aside from a extremist .000001% of the population, there aren’t people willing to die to kick drag queens out of libraries, defund the police, or make churches pay their “fair share” in taxes. (There were probably far more FBI embeds at the J6 rally than there are people truly down with those struggles.) We’ll passionately argue about these subjects but we’ll work to correct the problems in more peaceful ways.
This series of Tweets by MTG, though, turns out to be a good introduction to my post upcoming on Saturday. It’s one that’s taken a lot of thought, and I actually jumped the line with this one as it was a fortuitous way to set myself up. I will have a question for all of you that deserves an honest answer with all that’s going on both for the better (most prominent in that category being the outpouring of public prayer for Damar Hamlin and the revival at Asbury College in Kentucky) and the worse (the East Palestine derailment and recent uptick in mass shootings being examples of those.)
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