Maybe it's time to talk secession.

[TreasonousBastard]

32. Secession is out (remember the last time we tried it?) and I have no answer...

to the problem.

The last time we were so geographically divided was the late 19th century when people like Bryan and the Populist Party tried to gain a hold. Bryan was nuts, of course, and better known for his part in the Scopes trial-- and should he have won, we would never gotten to Roe in the first place.

Anyway, it didn't work. Simplistically, Bryan and his Midwestern liberals tried to wrest power from the Eastern corporate centers and immensely corrupt cities. It's possible the nation was never more divided then at that time (Civil War excepted).

We survived that, although it's arguable that the death of the Progressive Party could have meant the divide would continue with the death of progressivism had we not entered WWII, the only thing big enough to unify us.

From Day 1, this country was founded on suspicion, even hatred, of government, and that attitude still lingers. "Freedom" has degenerated to "Don't you dare tell me what to do!"

I'm too old and broke to start over, so I'm stuck here with little chance to change things.