America is like Humpty Dumpty...

[kentuck]

She is broken. The leader promised to unite her but he did the opposite. And now, she is broken and divided into many parts. All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put Humpty together again. So they gathered their favorite broken pieces and put them on television, wrote essays about them, and rode bikes with them. But they were only small parts of the Big Humpty. The other pieces scattered far and wide over time. No one could find them. So they pretended...

[Cleita]

1. Makes me think some of us ought to secede and

dilute Washington's power and scope, but I dream.

[me b zola]

7. I've been thinking about that

But instead of us seceding, clearly define the split and let the people make the choice.

It would go like this:

America L would agree that they view the Constitution and the representative government to be secular . People are free to worship, but it is squarely removed from the government, and government officials will not use it in any way shape or form. The Constitution will be used as a living document, acknowledging that there are issues that the founders never envisioned, and so we allow the SC to interpret it as such. There can be no tolerance of any citizen to be treated as less than a full citizen (fetuses are not citizens, that comes with a birth certificate).

Regulate business & media. No monopolies----NONE. No off shore tax shelters. High tariffs on companies who want to export jobs. This would encourage manufacturing to return to the US, and many other jobs.


Now for Amerika C. It would base the same Constitution & government on "Christianity". They would be allowed to merge their religion & State as they see fit.

Business would be allowed to be as unregulated as they see fit. Off shore tax shelters---groovy. Monopolies--even more groovy.



Anyway, that, in a nut shell, is what should be proposed to the American people. If polling would be done I'm guessing that 70% of Americans would want to live in our sane world. The proposal itself would serve as a wake-up call for the morans who continue to vote repub. Most Americans when presented with the two versions of America would choose to live in Liberal America.

[whistle]

2. We need a good cartoon illustrator to apply that visual and....

...post here on DU

[DivinBreuvage]

3. Oh well, eggs are bad for you anyway. n/t

[annabanana]

4. Humpty is a hopeless case... and I'm not ready to give up!

(all the kings horses and all the king's men to the contrary)

[wli]

5. United States of Canada and Jesusland? n/t

[PurityOfEssence]

6. I'll take mine scrambled with some country ham and beaten biscuits

The thirst for power of the moment cheats both the future and the past. We saddle our children with debt so we don't have to pay our share, and we let the legacies of our forebears crumble to dust because infrastructure is candy-assed weakness. We fuck the future and mooch off the past for a present that gives us no joy.

Extreme selfishness of the would-be conquerers keeps them from being truly effective. Whew, at least we can thank the collective karma for that.