I hope Rush Limbaugh is correct!

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

91. No national borders anyone has ever drawn have been permanent

...and the United States' aren't either. We're not that "exceptional." This large, evermore diverse, populous, and quarreling nation is going to partition at some point. The real questions are when, into what, and can it be a peaceful partitioning?

"Peaceful" is gonna be tough, admittedly, whenever it happens, given the gun nuts.

Many of the people who get offended at the very thought -- plenty of them always jump in with both feet when it comes up on DU, which of course is fine -- tend to express short-horizon, often very personal viewpoints.

Maybe take a step or two back from it. It isn't happening next year. It's not going to be on Rush Limbaugh's timetable. It's a ways off yet. My guess - obviously it's only a guess - is that by the end of the century the borders of the U.S. aren't going to be what they are now, that there will have been a significant fracture by then.

When it comes, of course the countries that result are going to be very imperfect, too. But I'm certain they'll at least be able to function better than the United States government is able to.

Also, we could even strive to do it as sensibly as possible. If it's into two nations, we'd need a decade or more of everyone having dual citizenship in both nations, and choosing one or the other after the extensive transition period.

And we have this thing, the internet, on which there would be home-swapping sites, and Reds in Blue country and Blues in Red country could peruse each other's property and talk about trades. Jobs of course are not as easily tradeable, but similar sites could at least enable people to compare them and ageee to file applications to swap.

Ultimately yes, there would still be Reds choosing to stay in in Blueland, and Blues in Redland. Nothing's ever going to be perfect, or even close to it.

But it will at least be better.

We'll be able to amend the Constitution again, among other things. Allocate representation in the Senate based on population. Abolish the Electoral College. Wipe away all the far right's current weapons for their imposition of their Minority Rule. Make many badly needed changes that otherwise are going to remain impossible.

If anyone has any more realistic, plausible solutions to the irreconcilable differences that exist and just keep worsening, I don't believe I've heard them. And I have been listening.