National divorce is neither destructive nor evil, it’s just dumb.
Conservatives who entertain it are like a battered woman who dreams about leaving her domineering husband, but knows she never will. It’s a fantasy to avoid real-world problems.
Nations are not marriages.
Schizo? I get that people are using the term "divorce," but you didn't have run with the analogy if you don't like it.
Unless there is a massive economic collapse... we will remain one country.
Ok, but we are cruising for a bruising on various levels, and no country yet has lasted forever.
The question is in what order does all this shit happen.
The article points out a lot of reasons this isn't going to happen tomorrow. As each straw breaks, I'd keep testing that hypothesis.
The thing about battered women is sometimes their domineering husbands end up dead under mysterious circumstances.
Of course the only two options aren't "massive economic collapse" or "Union forever". And one doesn't even have to be a student of history to see this: one could simply look South of the border where cartels are the government in certain regions.
If the author can't entertain this possibility it's due to his own lack of imagination, not because it's impossible.
Schizo? I get that people are using the term "divorce," but you didn't have run with the analogy if you don't like it.
Ok, but we are cruising for a bruising on various levels, and no country yet has lasted forever.
The question is in what order does all this shit happen.
The article points out a lot of reasons this isn't going to happen tomorrow. As each straw breaks, I'd keep testing that hypothesis.
The thing about battered women is sometimes their domineering husbands end up dead under mysterious circumstances.
Of course the only two options aren't "massive economic collapse" or "Union forever". And one doesn't even have to be a student of history to see this: one could simply look South of the border where cartels are the government in certain regions.
If the author can't entertain this possibility it's due to his own lack of imagination, not because it's impossible.