Could we just go ahead and actually have 2 Americas?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

It is all crystallizing for me after these five years of frustration. We must learn,just as the people in Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama have learned - we can't rely on the federal government under Bush or Republicans to do squat for average Americans. Even if we are sitting on rooftops suffering from thirst, dehydration and exposure. Could they make it any clearer?

So, why don't we just agree to officially have 2 Americas? Our schisms are too great and our belief systems too opposite. I am relying on a strong assertion of states rights and a readjusting populace to bring us to the place that we all want to be in anyway.

Red America can rely on the rugged individualism that made this country great. In future disasters, if you couldn't get out of town, (maybe your limo was in the shop)too bad. Your fault. Poor planning. Red America will not waste precious dollars trying to save your ass.

Red America can have a copy of the Ten Commandments etched into the every seat in the courthouse. Feel free to pray in school anytime you like. Go to church 3 times a day - make it a law. Bring back stoning, what the heck. Teach creationism and intelligent design. They had perfectly fine textbooks in use before Galileo - go dig some up. All Red Americans will be required to carry firearms. Equal Rights for Women was a terrible idea - rescind it and get those women back into the home where they belong. BY all means, make abstinence the only method of birth control countenanced by Red America. Red America can invest heavily in fossil fuels and big box retail. Red America will be a wonderful place for corporations, because why would you need crazy stuff like minimum wage laws and OSHA anyway. And all those stupid stupid laws from those tree hugger anti-pollution people can be retired. Stick with Diebold - why argue with a winner. Predictability is what you want with elections and everyone knows that change is bad.

Red America doesn't need or want PBS or NPR - they can get rid of them. Re-runs of Lawrence Welk and 1-Adam Twelve should be good enough for anyone, especially if you can get all of your Natalee Holloway coverage on the news channels. Plus, who needs anything else when you have NASCAR? Red America will remain the "Heartland" of America.


Blue America can have laws that protect the environment.Blue America will look into alternate fuels and mass transportation. Blue America will care about your sorry ass when you're stuck up a tree in a flood. They might even send people out to look for you and give you food and shelter.Blue America will keep Church and State separate. Blue America will recognize the right of anyone to marry whomever they please of whatever sex they happen to be. Abortions will remain legal in Blue America, but advances in birth control and morning after pills and male contraception will make them increasingly a thing of the past. Blue America will move forward into a scientific future and do stem cell research and try to cure the diseases of Blue Americans. Blue America will have health care for all the inhabitants. Blue America will truly care about the fate, future and education of every child. Blue America will lower the costs of higher education. Blue America will base it's economic future on
a service sector not of fast-food, but of healthcare and continued technological advances. Blue America will be known as the "Brainland" of America.

So, let's draw line down the center of the country and go live in the America of your particular dreams.

[Arkana]

1. That would be a problem--the Upper Midwest is blue, the West Coast

is blue, and the entire Northeast, as well as Hawaii, is blue. All the other regions are red. It would be unfair to kick people out of the places they've lived just because they lived in "blue America" or "red America" but vote the other way.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. Good point - but there's the great American tradition of jerrymandering!

[wtmusic]

2. Unfortunately Red America would instantly

want to "liberate" Blue America. Better to deal with the problem now.

[Coyote_Bandit]

4. Only if you rescue me first

I live in crazy red f*cking JOklahoma, the armpit of the Bible Belt.

[JaneGat]

5. Would you go for two presidents and maybe two supreme courts?

There was a study a few years ago by a think tank who came up with this, saying that the job of president was too much for one person, and there should be one civil and one federal. When I read it it seemed too strange. Now it seems just about right.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

6. Somehow we need to have 2 Virtual nations

It would be so great to separate from the reds, oh boy would it!!

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. The federalism of the fucked n/t