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Here is a good deal for dividing America
#254483
03/03/09 18:08
03/03/09 18:08
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Joined: Nov 2005
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cybrus
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Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.. Here is a model separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes. We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell (You are however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them)..
We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, hippies and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U. N., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.
We'll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.
Sincerely,
Student and an American
P. S. Also, please take Barbara Streisand & Jane Fonda with you.
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Re: Here is a good deal for dividing America
[Re: cybrus]
#254494
03/03/09 18:55
03/03/09 18:55
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Joined: Sep 2002
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PHeMoX
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And again, B. Streisand seems to ruins the deal.  No, seriously though, a divorce of ideologies isn't going to change a thing. What really causes all the issues are people in power, that wish to stay in power or at least make sure they'll end up somewhere nice after their political careers are long over. Lots of things behind the scenes happen without much common sense or ideology-related motivation involved, simply because people don't want a certain change when it hurts them because they are knee deep in a personal interest conflict and therefore simply won't vote the way the public expects them to based on their alleged ideology. Splitting up the USA could work, but truth be told, was it ever really united? Look at the federal laws vs. state laws, I really don't see much unity in that. Shouldn't technically federal laws overrule state laws anyways? Apparently 50+ states disagree, Cheers
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Re: Here is a good deal for dividing America
[Re: ortucis]
#254637
03/04/09 13:22
03/04/09 13:22
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You cannot divide a country like this. Democracy is always flawed, there is no perfection but then again, there is no better alternative. Learn to live with it. I disagree. There are definitely alternatives, but people generally do not like them. I wouldn't exactly call the united states a true democracy either. It's more a mediacracy at best. Still for example a dictatorial regime would at least get rid of the issue 'who's right' and who is not. You can't imagine how much time gets wasted debating about that... 
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Re: Here is a good deal for dividing America
[Re: Joozey]
#254930
03/06/09 14:03
03/06/09 14:03
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Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 5,900 Bielefeld, Germany
Pappenheimer
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Splitting the country worked fine for Germany. For a while at least. Never saw it this way!  Not sure that this worked fine, although I guess, we learned a lot during the reunification about the influence of different systems on the soul and consciousness of people.
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Re: Here is a good deal for dividing America
[Re: Joozey]
#254934
03/06/09 14:25
03/06/09 14:25
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fogman
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"Splitting the country worked fine for Germany"
I think this a rather strange conclusion. How came this idea into your head?
no science involved
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