What about religion? Ethnicity is inherent but you can convert religion, and all that fuckery used to convince people that the right is a tiny minority of reality-deniers only makes sense if they're trying to encourage conversion.
I'm aware that there is no clean way to handle it. Any way you slice the country, somebody is getting shafted and heavily encouraged to relocate. I still consider that a better option than blood in the streets.
Back when I was in high school, ethnicity was distinct from and not synonymous with race, closer to "culture" in meaning. Then again, it's been a while since I was in high school, so they may have changed the definition.
I agree with your characterization of the division, but your idea that there are only two outcomes is simplistic. It's far more likely the de facto civil war will continue, as it has for decades, and the administrative state will continue, as it has for centuries, both relatively unaffected by Presidential elections.
In which case, I will point once again to Sir John Glubb's The Fate of Empires. To put it bluntly, America has followed to the T the same pattern as every great nation, and is now reaching the part where they fall. I don't like it one bit, but I have seen no indication that America is going to break this pattern. The simple fact is that time is running out for America as we know her, and I have only two priorities for how that happens: minimize the bloodshed, and make sure that at least part of what comes out the other side still resembles the country my forefathers established.
In many metrics, it has already "fallen." And yet, still it stands. Many people are very obviously aware of how things are and are not deceived. They are willing to stand by what they believe. Why is a civil war necessarily less preferable to the previously-mentioned alternative - a coastal nation in eternal deadlock with the inland nation, which are surely somehow even more dysfunctional than our current state.
You're an absolute mong if you genuinely believe that two states created from splitting off from each other due to diametric opposition and morals that weren't compatible would magically remain at peace and never, at any point, go to wholesale war with each other or desire reunification - this presumes that no figurehead that desires these things will ever develop; you're literally using a book that fantasizes about things based upon aspects of bullshit, lol, reality would fucking tell you this does not work.
Tell him Biden's campaign director got arrested for election fraud.
Because 1: I am not above considering that the horse I back might lose a war, 2: civil wars get exceptionally fucking messy, particularly since we are unlikely to get one as neat and orderly as our last one again, and 3: because I really don't want to end up killing my countrymen for the crime of being deceived. If they are their own nation, then they get to succeed (haha) or fail by their own merits as their own people, forging their own destiny, for good or ill.
It didn't work because the government refused to allow it, the exact same scenario that I expect to play out this time. I am not jumping on a train that was just presented to me, I have been thinking about this for a long time. Am I wishful? Fuck, yes. I want a world where the lefty cities swelter in their Communism for a few generations before they come crawling back to the rest of America after realizing how hard they fucked up, and I know I'm not going to get it. But even if separating only delays the inevitable it means that 1: they were given every chance to not turn this into a war, and 2: that at least it will be a proper international war and not the sheer monumental clusterfuck of a proper Rhodesia-style civil war we are currently primed for.
John Bolton deserves to have a scud missile shoved up his ass.
Well I understand your point of view, and it may be wiser than mine, but I'm not sure. I respect your aversion to war certainly.
Light of the truth? Is your friend a part of a fucking cult?
