At the risk of taking Marjorie Taylor Greene seriously — which is always a potential intellectual hazard — JoyAnnReid unpacks what would happen if the Republican's 'national divorce' plan was real. (via The ReidOut Blog)
: “We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.”
First of all, the last time Southerners like Marge proposed a national divorce, it was because they were holdingToday, roughly half of African Americans still live in the 11 Southern states that comprised the Confederacy, and so if this national divorce happened, they would be trapped in an apartheid hellscape of a new country with zero health care, crappy public schools, barely a right to vote, and a full return to ownership by someone else of their bodies — except this time it wouldn’t just...
That divide, he writes, is very similar, both geographically and culturally, to the divides between the Union and the Confederacy. And based on the way individual red state economies like Mississippi, Kentucky and West Virginia operate now, they would be a nation of largely impoverished workers ruled by a small oligarchy of the very rich, with no health care, scant voting rights, and no autonomy for women.
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