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In reply to the discussion: If there is a Civil War II, and we win ..... [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The dividing line would run north to south from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, some states will be cut to give both countries equal landmass, each can reform it's own states within it's new borders. To me it doesn't matter whether we lose California and the Pacific Northwest or New York State and liberal eastern states, as long as the half that we get no longer has conservatives in it. We should be able to build an excellent country whether we take the eastern or western half.
People 18 and older decide which half they want to live in. People under 18 who follow their parents get one chance starting at 18 and ending at 23 to choose the country opposite the one their parents chose, they get automatic citizenship in the country of their choice.
People that own property in the country that they choose to leave who can't move that property (homes, business buildings, land, ect) would have that property purchased at a fair market value.
For the first two decades, the two countries would share a mutual defense pact to help protect the other with it's military that was partitioned off. The pact would end at two decades after the split, at that point, each country would be responsible for protecting itself and for forming it's own foreign policy that involves a military.
I believe the above would be the best course and the way the country is going, one day soon, it will either be that or a civil war. A modern civil war would be bloody and full of autrocities. We literally have people living next door to each other that can't stand each other politically and socially. We have that in families. Something has to give and we are barreling headfirst toward that breaking point.