America: Let's Call It a Day

I need to post this map again.

After seven weeks in the White House, Donald Trump has dismantled American governmental agencies and destroyed our alliances with Canada, Mexico and the European Union, and even our once-special relationship with Great Britain.  Congressional Republicans won't do anything to stop him, and  congressional Democrats can't do anything to stop him - and even if they could, Democratic leadership is so weak and spineless that their efforts to stop Trump would backfire as soon as they got started.

I know that folks like Robert Reich are arguing that we should not despair and keep up the fight against Trump, and there is growing antipathy to Trump among the American people, but let's face it; Trump and Elon Musk wouldn't be doing what they are doing if they didn't think they could get away with it.

At the risk of sounding cynical, I think the United States should cease to exist. This is not an attitude of doom or  despair - as I see it, it's our only chance of survival.  Even if one assumes we can survive another four years of Donald Trump and he leaves office as scheduled, a hypothetical Democratic President who takes office in January 2029 will be unable to repair the damage Trump has caused or rebuild the institutions or even the foreign alliances that Trump has destroyed.  We're not respected anymore, we're trusted anymore . . . we're not America anymore.

This country is too big to be united on anything and it never will be united in anything but name. Let's stop pretending that New England has anything in common with Texas or that California has anything in common with the Great Lakes states. Breaking up into ten or twelve separate countries and going our separate ways would enable the states of the current Union to co-exist without living with each other. Florida can be as pro-Trump as it wants to be - heck, he lives there - while a Middle Atlantic commonwealth can be as liberal as it wants to be. But we can't be the United States of America anymore. 

I want out.  I want a divorce.  Let's call it a day.