I see no other way out, especially since these recent rulings from SCOTUS, and in light of what will be coming down from them in the future. However, I've not thought of "virtual" separation, but physical. I don't see how a virtual separation can work. I can see how a physical separation could work, tho it would be difficult as hell to achieve... much more so than a virtual one. Biggest would be simple logistics of helping people move from one part of the country to the other - and there would have to be help. I don't think the Blues caught in the Red states are the poorest, but we're pretty damn near the bottom of the barrel. Many of us are older, and have sunk just about everything we have trying to stake a claim into housing they can't take away from us. Most of survive only on Social security, with small annuities as extras. One big emergency away from losing most everything. I know I dearly want right now to move to a Blue State, but have neither the money nor the physical stamina to do it... let alone the money to buy a house in a blue state to get settled in. That's the kind of logistics I'm talking about. Housing is exorbitant in Blue States I know about, as compared to the Midwest, where I'm currently stuck. But gods, how I'd love to be someplace where my vote would finally count for something! Where I could walk down the sidewalk and actually strike up a conversation with someone of my own kind! To go the movies and not wonder who in the theater is "packing" and could shoot up the place! Talk about feeling like you're already in heaven! Yes, it would mean giving everything I've got to get there, and accepting all the help I could get to get it done... but I'd do it in a heartbeat. Colder weather on these old bones and all!
But beyond that, there are other issues that would have to be worked out. Military treaties, land grants, water rights, etc. It would be a hell of a set of treaties to work, and we'd have to check, recheck, and check again on every single one of them to ensure we didn't get taken like the Native Americans. Because we couldn't trust one work the R's said as truth or honest dealing.
But I'd feel a whole lot better about the future if we'd attempt something like this. I may be feeling older than dirt right now, but I'm not willing to give up my future if I can help it. If the R's take away the Vote and the Election and turn it over to the Legislature, we're doomed. No hyperbole. Kansas will never see another Blue rep for anything. We'll never get out of religious law. We still don't have medical marijuana. At that rate, we'll never have it, just to illustrate one small thing. The Big R's will kill Social Security and starve us Elders out of our homes and set us on a wandering route for food... or suicide. I don't see any other way for survival. We won't pack the courts. We won't use the Constitution to rein in the SCOTUS Judicial Review powers. It seems we don't have any representatives who listen to us as we scream bloody murder - before, as, or after we vote... and now it seems the R's will take that vote away from us. It's time for a reset of some kind. Dividing the country may be that reset both sides need, IMNSHO.
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