The Divorced States of America?

A while back, I snapped a great picture of my two daughters at the kitchen table enjoying some home-made ice cream sundaes that we made together.  Sitting there with the hot fudge covering their smiling faces, they looked so happy, cute, and innocent. I had to share the moment with my friends and family on Facebook.

Most people clicked the little heart or the thumbs up, some made nice comments, and then there was that one thorn in the rose stem.  Unfortunately, the thorn that pricks us is what we remember—and that prick came from a former colleague of mine.  Those little girls aren’t going to have a future to grow up in if Trump keeps f**king the world up, he wrote.

Those words across the screen under the picture of my girls were like a ketchup stain on a white tee to me—something so pure tainted by ugliness.  I didn’t respond by telling him to kick rocks.  I certainly wasn’t going to use that forum to defend the president or his politics.  I just deleted the guy as a friend and moved on.  When someone can’t leave their Trump Derangement Syndrome out of a picture of my children, I don’t want them seeing the picture in the first place.  It’s just one small example of how the politicization of literally everything is turning friends into adversaries—my anecdotal evidence of how large portions of Americans are already living in different countries in their own minds.

Let me be clear.  I don’t view Trump as a savior, a deity, or a saint.  I do, however, view his presidency as a respite from decades of ideological submersion and detrimental globalist/communist policy that establishment politicians in this country and abroad have been ramming down our throats for my entire life. Soviet KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warned us of this over three decades ago; despite that warning, the first half of divide and conquer is complete. Watching Bezmenov reveal what we are seeing today as a communist master plan hatched at least a half century in advance is required viewing in order to understand why a patriotic American police officer like myself would be willing to hear secessionists plead their case in 2018 for the survival of the last vestiges of Western civilization.

As significant portions of the US are increasingly looking, voting, and living more like the neighboring country to our south, and as most of Western Europe continues to welcome and glorify substandard values and behaviors from staggering numbers of imported “refugees” of various Islamic failed states in the Middle East, I wonder what the world will look like with a communist Chinese sole superpower in the next 50-100 years?  What will America look like after another fifty years of polar separating due to the further ideological submersion and the politicization of everything under the sun? It’s the death of western civilization. Something’s got to give.

Fellow OpsLens writer, Joe Boatwright, penned an article last week entitled Is There an Undeclared War in the US? It’s a great read, but it’s got an obvious answer: Emphatically, yes.

So, what’s the solution? All undeclared wars will go hot eventually when compromise cannot be reached.  Imagine a world where the two sides just walked away and left each other the hell alone to govern themselves separately as they saw fit. Maybe we can be divided, but not conquered.

It’s as if everyone sees the war playing out, but no one will even discuss a solution that doesn’t exclusively serve their own side or merely kick the can down the road. Just last year, famed liberal journalist Carl Bernstein described the US as being in a “Cold Civil War” while addressing the American Program Bureau. His solution? According to Carl “Marx” Bernstein, the only way out is for everyone to trust the great work of the media and continue to stand against the President of the United States. Apparently, this is a man who also believes you can get rid of a headache by bashing your skull against a brick wall.

Esteemed conservative journalist and Hoover Institution Fellow Victor Davis Hanson also espoused his strategy for ending the “Cold Civil War” in 2017.  It involves people essentially channeling Gandhi and turning the other cheek to provocation from the other side.  He suggests those on both sides focus on commonalities and pleasantries when dealing with the opposition such as asking How are your children? to bridge the gap—but he prefaces his solution by admitting that it’s wishy-washy.

Conservatives have been taking the Ghandi approach for decades by cucking to political correctness in an attempt to shed the “racist white guy party” branding unjustly given to them by the left.  Essentially, all they’ve done is play the happy loser.  Welcome to Why Donald Trump became President 101.  I agree with a lot of what you say, Mr. Hanson, but have you got any solid new ideas that you can actually stand firm behind or are they all wishy-washy?

Despite the writing on the wall, discussing a peaceful dissolution of the US into two or more nations remains far outside of the Overton Window for tolerable public discourse.  You could lump secession right in there with discussing 9/11 conspiracy theories, crisis actors in Parkland, or asking why white people can’t question anything in 2018 without being called a Nazi.  The Overton Window is in dire need of an expansion.

You think I’m crazy, I get it.  It’s a beyond-lofty goal to envision a peaceful fracturing of the United States of America into one heartland, rural, nationalistic, conservative/libertarian nation and another coastal, urban, globalist, socialist/communist eclectic hodgepodge of culture and ideology where everything is relative and wrong-think is censored. How do you separate them geographically? How do you split the economy up so both can flourish? Obviously both sides would expect the other to fail on pure principle alone and what in the world do you do with the grown children stuck in the middle who hate to see mommy and daddy fight because they just want to spend life Snap-chatting selfies on their iPhones?  It would take one hell of a divorce attorney for sure, but it beats domestic violence if it is possible.

President Lincoln knew that a society can only live in discordance for so long, and his grasp of this was never made more apparent than in his famous House Divided speech that predated America’s Civil War and his own presidency.  Lincoln didn’t need a former KGB propagandist to spell it out for him when he said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” He already had thousands of years of divide-and-conquer strategy to look back on from the Assyrians in Babylon to Julius Caesar’s Divida et Imperia. This famous passage should put into perspective what we face today, and what the eventual results will be if we repeat history:

“I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.”

Ultimately, Lincoln saw the future. The Union wasn’t dissolved, the house didn’t fall, and the United States of America ceased to be divided. It all became one thing eventually, but it required a violent civil war that cost over six hundred thousand lives at a time where the American population was a mere tenth of what it is today. Without allowing the Confederacy to wave goodbye, those deaths were unavoidable.

A complete disconnect in ideologies and a full-on assault of traditional American culture and values by those who direct pop-culture, the media, and greater political discourse continue to drive Americans into opposing collectives.  If you think people don’t feel as strongly on both sides of the gun control, freedom of speech, and abortion debates as they did about slavery and states’ rights back in Lincoln’s day, you haven’t been paying attention. History shows that staying on our current course leads to a total breakdown of civility and eventually devolves into violence. In modern times, that violence will eventually manifest itself in widespread guerrilla warfare making Antifa vs. Right-Wing clashing in Charlottesville and Berkeley look like a preseason scrimmage by comparison. Is there a pressure release valve to prevent it?

I would argue that allowing the secession movements in Texas and California the chance to move forward without a federal crackdown would be a good starting point for finding that release. The 1869 US Supreme Court case Texas v. White found precedent for secession to be unconstitutional based on the Civil War, so it’s an uphill battle to say the least. Still, should Texit or Calexit be the will of the people as was Brexit, I support the US Supreme Court taking another look at the constitutionality of allowing them to peacefully separate.

Don’t look to me for a Secession for Dummies how-to guide because I’m not your guy.  In the mainstream media, you can’t even discuss it without being dismissed as a traitor, anarchist, or crackpot. Instead, they pound on you to wax poetically about the American melting pot and vomit contrived “We’re all Americans” bumper sticker platitudes even when discussing illegal aliens who, by very definition, are not.

Decades of Marxist/Leninist subversion has gotten half the country kneeling for the American flag and chanting, “Not my President!”—or at least sympathizing with those doing it. Meanwhile, the other half is marching in the streets against the spread of communism with AR-15s and calling their opposition murderers as they toss around dead-fetus dolls to prove their point at abortion rallies. Is it just me or does it no longer feel like we’re all Americans in this together? I’m not saying it’s time to shake hands and go our separate ways, but I’m down to at least begin talking about it.