If only we had implemented some of its recommendations.

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Why not start free health care for Democrats as a trial run. Tax just the Democrats, and provide the care to them.

Before you know it, half of them would be indicted & the other half would skip the country to avoid prosecution. Problem Solved!

I’m ready to accept the Two Americas meme. It’s clear to me that there are irreconciliable differences between Liberals and Conservatives.

Personally, I would favor secession of selected states if it wasn’t illegal and likely to result in a destructive war. It also would terribly unfair to the unwitting people stuck in the Conservative fly-over country..

So this is proreason’s modest proposal to solve our country’s irreconcilable problems. I believe this can be accomplished legally, within the Constitution (although it will require an amendment), and it will make both Liberals and Conservatives deliriously happy.

Split the United States into two states sharing the same space, Conservative US and Liberal US. It isn’t a geographic split. It’s a political split. At the level of the existing states and counties/cities/etc. little would change. But at the federal level, each citizen would declare himself a citizen of CUS or LUS.

Some federal functions could not be split. For example, the military. CUS and LUS would have to agree to all joint military action. If CUS wants a bigger military, CUS could allocate for that on its own, but the CUS military would be under the joint command of CUS/LUS. There may be a few more functions that cannot be split, and they would be handled similarly to the military.

For all other federal functions, the federal government functions and services would be 100% separate.

For example, LUS citizens will want free health care and will want to tax all of its wealthy citizens 100% or more to provide for that. CUS citizens will continue to struggle along with a broken health care system, with vast numbers of uninsured citizens and non-citizens.

Example 2: LUS will dedicate unlimitted resources to curtailing Global Warming. CUS will probably risk destroying the world by not making the investment necessary to control inter-planetary movements, and will have to suffer the consequences.

Example 3: LUS will continue with 100% state-run schools, and its citizens will continue to learn about the horrors caused by the original USA, and also the new horrors perpetrated by the CUS. CUS citizens will move to a more privately operated school system and will have to endure the exhorbitant profits the education profiteers will collect.

CUS and LUS citizens will coexist in the same cities and towns, and have the same national security and selected other joint government functions. Most other federal functions will be separate.

There are many details to be worked out with this plan, but I think it has enormous potential.

Essentially, LUS citizens will be able to tax themselves as much as they want, and the LUS government will control every detail of the citizen’s lives. There will be 20 hour work weeks, 32-week vacations, UK-class health care, no poverty, and no limits on drugs, sex and rap music.

CUS citizens will continue to be slaves to capitalist exploitation. Taxes will be lower, but the citizens well-being will sink to new levels of depravity. It’s even conceivable that the next 230 years of the CUS could be as disastrous as the first 230 years of the old united United States.

But at least, we won’t be bickering all the time, and both Americas will get what they want and deserve.

Can anybody imagine a more disastrous occurrence for this great country.

Oh wait……..

The only thing missin’ is the lithping windbag pervert, B. Fwank, and his brother in crime, C. Dodd. May as well throw Reid and Pelosi in there, too.

Likely will take a thorough scrubbing to get the scum off.

“Accountability and Government” are two words that cannot be connected. Government, at least ours, has become nothing more that a grand scam. Take the profitability, corruption and waste out of government and there would be enough money for almost anything.

First time I heard that formulation.

How true it is.

What a booty bag of treasure Death Care will be for our congressional aristocrats!!!!

Imagine having 20% of the economy at your disposal.

No wonder the Republicans regret being forced to reluctantly oppose it.