ROBERT REICH: "Perhaps we’ve got to face the fact we’re really two nations" [View all]

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.....John Russel Houser opened fire in a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater, killing two young women and seriously injuring seven others before turning the gun on himself. Just before the Lafayette shooting, President Obama gave an interview in which he described the lack of gun control in America as one of the most frustrating parts of his presidency.

Perhaps we’ve got to face the fact we’re really two nations – one that loves guns, hates abortion, abhors gay marriage, dislikes immigrants, and is so suspicious of the federal government it won’t even take free Medicaid funding for its near poor. The other America is exactly the opposite. Instead of trying to shoehorn these two Americas together, maybe they should be separated. Say, a two-thirds vote by citizens of a state will determine which America it joins. The two Americas will remain friendly and maintain a joint foreign policy, but their domestic policies will be separate. And we'll need passports (and have to go through metal detectors) in order to get from one to another.



I’m being facetious, of course. But is it a totally crazy idea?


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