Guest Post By James Rogers
Why are we hanging onto a relationship for which we should be actively separating ourselves?
Is it ethical to cling to something you know is more than dead, when it is demonstrably existentially dangerous?
What is this relationship that is so toxic? The intact 50 states comprising the United States. My proposition is: We must separate from states, leaders and groups actively attempting to destroy the U.S. Constitution and American culture before there is no Constitution left to protect us and a culture seeking to exterminate us.
The states themselves are rather obvious: California, New Mexico, Illinois, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Washington, Delaware, New Jersey, Minnesota, and distinct portions of other states like western Oregon, northern and eastern Virginia, eastern Pennsylvania, southern lower Michigan, southeastern Wisconsin, plus the District of Columbia.
The leaders can be broadly described as Democratic Socialists, so-called democracy advocates, cultural cancers such as the “gender affirming care” and abortion-on-demand advocates. The names on this list are long, but they all subscribe to the Obama-imagined fundamental transformation of the US against those clinging to the Constitution, God and guns.
They have proven via political violence, poisonous policies, and social canceling that we are their targets. COVID policies experimentally divided the country into individualists and collectivists. Obedience was the metric / the crux of COVID policy. Even now, after proof being provided of the malicious nature of government policies during the period, the true believers call out individualists as deniers. Similarly issues like DEI, puberty blockers, climate change, court packing, electoral college elimination, unfettered immigration, no voter ID, history rewrites, endless lawfare, judicial overreach and trans activism are alive and very well among the places and people described above. Nearly everything they believe is intentionally malicious, not real, or so grossly exaggerated it is ludicrous.
The United States is not united. To expect us to somehow become united again is a fantasy. And yet our traditional notion of America of 50 United States persists…as we fervently hope this will go away once people come to their senses. These people and policies are not rational, nor will they ever be. Stop the delusion.
The more we cling to the self-deception the more opportunity those seeking to unravel the culture have to do terrible things, endangering everything we believe to be right, valuable, and sustainable as a society.
In the original colonies the sentiment was join or die. Now we must separate ourselves to survive and begin to thrive again in a society worth keeping.
The problem is that it is not separated geographically. Even in deep red states, the government bureaucracy are Democratic Socialists, as are all the lawyers and judges (well, 95%) , as well as a similar percentage of the teachers from kindergarten to the universities. To do as you suggest would require a separation more like the India/Pakistan separation.
Among other problems….
Interesting guest post perspective.
James Rogers wrote, “we must separate ourselves to survive”.
In my opinion, what your entire perspective comes down to in a nutshell is pure defeatist.
Seriously James, what exactly do you suggest we do?
Should we give the states of California and Oregon to these sociommunist hive-minded morons, encourage all of them to move there, govern themselves in their own little utopia cult, and cut them off from the rest of the United States completely? Certainly the USA could survive losing those two states (since they’re already ideologically gone) and taking two stars off the flag.
Or maybe we should give up, give the hive-minded morons that never grew out of adolescence total control of the United States so we could sit back and teach them the political lesson they need to be taught. Of course doing that would trash the constitution and completely destroy the United States of America.
Yes, President Obama, a closet sociommunist, called the sociommunists to action in his 2008 speech saying “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” and it’s been down hill socially, culturally, and politically ever since, but now is not the time to give up. Now is the time to fight back with everything we have and if these sociommunist morons want to take it to the level of civil war in the streets and country side, they’re in for a fight that they cannot win.
Personally James, I really don’t think you’ve thought this defeatist approach through to its logical end.
I dunno, Steve. Canada is going through the same sort of referendum right now. The separatist Parti Québécois won Quebec’s provincial election Monday but fell short of enough seats to govern alone, returning to power with a promise to hold another referendum on independence from Canada. See, https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/06/americas/quebec-separatist-party-elections-result-win-intl-hnk
Alberta is courting the same idea. See, https://govtschemes.org/alberta-referendum-october-2026-questions-and-polling/
We have had a relatively stable republic for 250 years. Yet, the country is more and more divided with each passing day. Perhaps ripping off the bandaid might do some good.
jvb
The United States may be as divided today as it was in 1860 about the issue of slavery. However, when Southern states separated themselves into the Confederation, President Lincoln decided otherwise, and a Civil War was fought to preserve the Union, and slavery was abolished.
Separation is not a solution; it leaves the problems intact. It also leaves the world without a United States of America, making China the leader of this world.
I live in the state of New York, and I do not think that people living in the rural districts who vote Republican and proudly American see any merit in this proposal. Do New Yorkers who want to visit family in Pennsylvania and Ohio now need to have a visa, and pass immigration control?
This post makes me concerned about how Americans view their own country. Rod Dreher has a book coming out with the ominous title “Weimar America”; the mood in this country makes me afraid for the future of this country.
I read Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” late this spring…an eye-opening read. I would recommend it.
Rather than replying to individuals, allow me to respond more generally to the critiques offered.
peanutclearly45eb6e57bb,
Do you realize that these people are actually, and very literally, anti-American and they’re latching on to any political ideology that stands in opposition to the USA. They’re indoctrinated and literally hate the USA.
Let that really sink in; they are anti-American and want to see the USA fundamentally changed, as in socially, culturally and politically destroyed.
Do you really think that by giving these anti-American sociommunist morons their own little safe space in the corner will pacify them and they’re going to stop trying to destroy the USA? That’s a serious question. Think critically about what enabling is and how that applies to this.
It’s time to stop pacifying and enabling these indoctrinated morons and actively fight back to squash their movement. These morons were easy to ignore when there was only a few of them spewing their nonsense on a few street corners. Now, because we’ve been socially pacifying and enabling these historically ignorant indoctrinated morons to be politically correct, they’ve gained numbers and political clout. Continuing this enabling behavior is absurd.
No peanutclearly, it’s not time to pander and enable these morons to save lives, to do so would risk giving up essential liberties.
peanutclearly45eb6e57bb wrote, “A realist looking to save lives.”
Benjamin Franklin is credited saying…
Break out of what I think might be a form of “save lives” tunnel vision, and really think about what you’re proposing.
If they make war on us, that’s their choice. Then we rout them and take whatever ceded land back.
The biggest problem with separation is that the gay race communists in the DSA and largely the Democratic Party will never allow the other states to leave, or leave them alone if they manage to do so. They must force their vision of government onto everyone in the world, and peaceful coexistence is not really possible in the long term.
The only way the republic ultimately survives is to defeat the enemy that is the DSA and its ilk. Decisively, and ultimately, violently. The reason is because their politics has effectively become their religion, and their nascent union with the violent, unassimilated Muslim enclaves is proof of this. They both believe that those who will not submit to their rule must be imprisoned or killed. You cannot coexist with an implacable enemy like that, even in a divided union. War would be inevitable, and the Leftist states would be supported by foreign actors desiring to have a say in how America is governed. In return, they will send arms and troops to help the Left win.
No, we cannot coexist. At some point, we’re going to have to fight it out for control of the country the old-fashioned way. We aren’t there yet, and probably won’t be for quite a while, but the Left is now too large and too malignant to be suppressed like it was back in the 1960’s until the early aughts.
This is the argument for the national divorce. Just on a practical level, it seems more and more plausible.
It isn’t just that politics have become the religion, but that the immigrant population of Muslims who have a 100-year plan to rule the world have taken over the communist wing of the party, and have found effective ways to lure the gullible, especially our youth, with the siren song of ‘fairness’ and free stuff. We have let this happen because we pride ourselves in acceptance and embrace of other cultures and religions, this time to our detriment because we have welcomed without question millions of immigrants who do not ever intend to adopt the American way. As you say, they hate America and will undermine and destroy from within. No other religion has tried to take over the country, at least not in recent memory. Even the Catholic Church with its left-leaning ideology does not suggest an overthrow. The only group actively working to overthrow our Constitution and government is the Muslim religion.
Observing and acknowledging these political patterns raises a cry of racism or bigotry. The folks who are quickest and loudest with such name-calling are being eaten alive by their own party. The takeover of the dems happened so quickly, they didn’t see it coming.
Geographical partition probably won’t work for reasons already cited. DSA communists have infiltrated virtually every state. We have got to defeat this movement at the ballot box before we are relegated to a violent end.
Does the ballot box work anymore? When we only have two choices of which neither is preferable can it ever work again or, really, did it ever? I know that sounds like a cynic and maybe I am one but this I know, I’m very disillusioned.
Your list of partial states is more than just the latter list.
New Mexico, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey are homogeneous enough that it is indeed the whole state. Maybe New York fits after as many have fled.
But every one of the others on that list has a strong divide. For Oregon, it isn’t even the Western part, as Southern Oregon is deep, deep red. More so than the Eastern part, actually. Washington has an equal divide based on the Cascade mountains mirroring Oregon. Downstate Illinois is downright red territory.
California being such a big state, and in particular, such a long state, leaves places very divorced from the insanity of half the state. Those from the East Coast have a habit of forgetting how far it is. The distance from Sacramento to the Northern border of the state (the most conservative) is equivalent to the distance between NYC and Richmond.
The answer that the authors of the constitution had was very straightforward: Federalism. Allow the states to be unique, and let them do their own thing. People are free to move. If the federal government had stayed limited, instead of being the behemoth it is, we wouldn’t be facing anywhere near as much strife.
It won’t work though for the socialists, for the same reason socialism has failed everywhere else. It becomes someplace the productive flee and the freeloaders flock to. Given the right of any US citizen to relocate to a new state at will, no socialist state can survive. We’re seeing it with the migration out of New York, Minnesota and California right now. We see it with the reverse flow of Somali Learing Centers every other form of grift to blue states. If they can do this at the federal level instead, then people have a much harder time fleeing.