When Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for a "national divorce" between blue states and red states it is secession by any other name and thus inherently anti-American. After all, we are called the United States for a reason.
What strikes me most though is Greene's use of the world divorce when you consider her husband filed for divorce against her last September. That has probably left a mark. Just because Greene is going through a divorce doesn't mean the rest of the country should have to get a divorce along with her. Besides some of us aren't even married.
But if the country does get a divorce, then who gets the kids? I mean take Greene's home state of Georgia. A state capable of electing Greene and Andrew Clyde (he who said the January 6th attacks were "a normal tourist visit") yet equally capable of electing Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. It's not so cut and dry. If there is to be a national divorce it will be acrimonious, not amicable.
Then there's the question of the division of property and, in this case, territory. The Republican controlled Idaho House of Representatives just voted to annex a sizable portion of Oregon. I cannot imagine the people of Oregon being ore-ida with that. Then again, I'm sure this is exactly what Marjorie Taylor-Greene wants: chaos, calamity and alimony payments from blue states to red states.
The only silver lining that can be found from this nonsense is if Republicans follow Greene's lead on divorce and secession, it will be the kind of thing that will help President Biden win a second term and along with it Democratic control of the House of Representatives.
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