DHBirr Wrote:An article ran in the Washington Post saying that the U.S. needs "relationship counselling."
What was really telling was the number of comments attached to the article saying that it's too late for counselling; America needs a "divorce" due to irreconcilable differences. In describing how many pro-divorce responses there were, the words "overwhelming majority" come to mind. There was also a lot of criticism to the effect that the writer dealt in "both sides at fault" false equivalencies and no, the left had not been every bit as vicious as the right.
Quote:Fry123 commented at 7/4/2017 7:01 PM EDT:
Split?? Uh... no. I'm not giving up my ability to live and work anywhere in the USA because the extremes of both parties think they have a right to dictate policy to the rest of us.
UK_spectator replied at 8:43 AM EDT:
Your problem is that the USA does not exist any more.
The States of America exist but they are not United and have not been for some while. They move further apart daily, with the blue group subsidising the red group.
There comes a time in a relationship where it is necessary to be realistic and give up trying to stay together.
It happens with countries, chunks of Europe for example quite recently. Pakistan came out of the partition of India. ... and I'm afraid I don't see Americans making any better a job of it.
I've occasionally joked for the last decade that the next American Civil War will be Republicans vs Democrats. When it seems like, no matter who wins the presidency, that 25% of the population will consider them the Devil incarnate, based solely on their political party, that doesn't look good for the future.___________________________
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