GW 3 hours ago

Very interesting idea, and in a lot of ways it does make sense. If two groups disagree so adamantly in their seemingly incompatible ideologies, then the best thing may be a "divorce." Believe me, I know about divorce. I'd like to see a similar missive written by a liberal/progressive/democrat, just to read the bullet points. DIVORCE AGREEMENT THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY WELL PUT AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S BY A YOUNG PERSON, A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM.

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way. Here is our separation agreement: --Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes. --We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. --You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. --Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. --We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel. --You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them. --We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.

--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens. --We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. --We'll keep Bill O'Reilly, and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood . --You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. --You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security. --We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values. --You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill. --We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find. --You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. --We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. --We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem." --I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya" or "We Are the World". --We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot. --Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,

John J. Wall

Law Student and an American

P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin & Charlie Sheen, Barbara Streisand, & ( Hanoi ) Jane Fonda with you.

P.S.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country Like Unfollow Post Share Brian D I'd accept the challenge, BUT I'm SERIOUSLY over-committed this year already. The piece is a fine example of the debate that's been going on since Hobbes and John Locke. Or the famous case of "The Roman State v. some trouble making rabbi from Israel." The problem is, Progressives argue for teamwork and unity. (I'm not counting Communists in that, they simply want to exchange one Empire for another.) So while you'd find plenty of people from the Communist POV arguing for a divorce so they can have a different set of oligarchs, the liberal/progressive/Democratic response would be to ask "Why do you hate America, democracy, and human dignity?" about an hour ago Like G W I started to write a longer response, but it can be distilled to three words: You're joking, right? about an hour ago Like Brian D No, I'm totally serious. Working the equivalent of three jobs, running a household, being an unpaid caseworker to a half dozen people, and walking 2 dogs, I do not have time to craft anything lengthy. about an hour ago Like Brian D I'm busy enough that I'd have to plagiarize Teddy Roosevelt's SQUARE DEAL and NEW NATIONALISM speeches, John Locke, Thomas Paine, and Ben Franklin of course. Lincoln's 1861 state of the union speech, and several of William Jennings Bryan's better speeches would get appropriated. Charlie Chaplin's final monolog in THE GREAT DICTATOR and most of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, MEET JOHN DOE and MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN I'd be honest enough to quote, I can't steal from someone better at rhetoric than I am. All around the common theme of asking when teamwork, mutual aid and looking out for the little guy became so controversial, and being a sore loser at losing a popular vote became a virtue. 59 minutes ago Like G W No, I mean that you've got to be joking about: (i) analogizing the present "left versus right" argument to Rome versus Jesus; (ii) the so-called "progressives" wanting only "teamwork and unity" (under the standard definitions of those words); and (iii) asking conservatives why THEY hate America,

democracy and human dignity. Those Orwellian and mind-boggling descriptors remind me of Rand's dystopia in Atlas Shrugged, but come alive. 59 minutes ago Like G W Brian, I do have to thank you for providing me enough ammunition to keep me busy for a couple of days. But even the easy targets sometimes have to wait. I, too, am busy. Busy hustling my freakin' butt off, to have enough left over for myself after paying constantly increasing taxes. To be continued. . . . 39 minutes ago Like Brian D I look forward to it. Too many people have stopped debating me since they know I'm addicted to debate. I'm like one of those guys you see in a sports bar that spends 20 minutes arguing AGAINST artificial turf for 20 minutes, goes to the bathroom, and comes out arguing FOR artificial turf with the same level of enthusiasm. If I ever convert you to the European model of social democracy, I will just go out of the room for a cigarette and come back in arguing in favor of a fascist neo- feudalistic state modeled on THE LORD OF THE RINGS. 27 minutes ago Like