A ‘National Divorce’ Is An Understandable Desire But A Recipe For Disaster

A national divorce would be impossible. The possibility of civil war is also unimaginable. Marjorie Taylor Greene (the Georgia congresswoman) is a horrible messenger for the idea. It is therefore not surprising that she has been elected to Congress in Georgia. Tweet Concerning the necessity of a national divorcement brought about a slew of critics. Includes From fellow Republicans.

Yet for all the problems with the proposal — to say nothing of the often-Insane responses — there are good reasons why the idea is alluring to some on the right. Recognizing these points does not endorse a national split, and they will not disappear. 

First, these truths are simple. Our nation’s moral and cultural divisions are almost as deep as those that preceded the Civil War. There is a multitude of polling and punditry on our polarization, but it can perhaps be best summed up by noting that we can’t even agree on what a woman is — the Biden administration, along with many blue states, is literally putting male criminals in women’s prisons on the theory that trans women are women, full stop. This level, as well as many others, of disagreement does not lend itself for easy coexistence or political cooperation.

This division applies to both the right and left. However, conservatives are not immune to this attack. It is evident that the cultural left has succeeded in changing social and legal norms about the essentials of life such as sex and marriage. They continue pushing the envelope. We went from “be nice as Bruce becomes Caitlyn” To “trans the preschoolers” It happens almost immediately 

Because the left sees these campaigns as moral successors to and moral equivalents to the civil rights movement’s civil rights movement, they believe that they are justified in using the broad government power to break Jim Crow to punish Christians who refuse to promote and celebrate same-sex marriage ceremonies.

Also, the left supports a bigger government. This is detrimental to pluralism especially when it does not offer ample accommodations for minorities or dissenters. Nonconformists will have less room if the government has more control over everything, from education to healthcare. This reveals a problem with the government’s control over everything. federalist solution Our nation’s divisions are that only one side is able to accept it. The reason the right is more interested in national divorce is that they are continually being attacked by the Left.

This leads us to the third truth. It is that there is an asymmetrical distribution of power in culture war. Leftists can achieve major cultural victories despite not having the political power to do so because of their dominance in cultural leftism across all industries and institutions, including academia, entertainment, and Big Tech.

As the left retakes control of cultural, economic and political hubs of power

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