I’ve been divorced, and it’s not a pleasant experience.
That said, there’s a huge difference between Michael and Leslie’s divorce in 1982 and the red state-blue state divorce Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to want America to undergo.
The congresswoman that Jimmy Kimmel calls Klan Mom says there are irreconcilable differences between liberals and conservatives that make life difficult to bear for many Americans.
She says we should split into Red State America and Blue State America, with a smaller federal government that would provide just national defense and border protection.
Of course that’s impossible.
Let’s look at one issue Greene says makes us irreconcilable, the right to keep and bear arms. In her red states, there would be no restrictions at all on what guns people could buy and own. In the blue states, those rights could be restricted.
Well …
There are two problems with that. First, not everyone who lives in blue states is liberal and not everyone living in red states is conservative. I live in the same state as Greene, but we’re on opposite side of most issues. So if I stay here, I have to accept all sorts of laws I don’t like.
Also, Georgia isn’t that red a state. Joe Biden carried it in the 2020 election, and Democrats have won the last three Senate elections in 2020 and 2022. My home state is being called a “purple” state and five to 10 years from now it might be blue.
In addition, you really can’t have one federal government watching over two such different nations. The two would have very different positions both on national defense and immigration.
Most of Greene’s so-called red states have another problem. Most of those states get back more money from the federal government than they pay in taxes. That won’t be popular with her fans.
Also, it’s difficult to imagine it being easy to travel from one part of red or blue America to another part.
Clearly, there are millions of right wingers in blue states. Do they move to red states?
The reverse is also true.
There’s just no way to do it, and I’m pretty sure Greene knows that.
Maybe she should just put a sock in it.