The 2024 Election is Evidence That National Divorce is our Best Option

It seems like bi-monthly assassination attempts against a presidential candidate becoming the norm should mark the end of this abusive relationship

The United States is an empire in collapse, and a seemingly inevitable part of imperial collapse is the secession of smaller political units within the empire. This was true of the Roman Empire, it was true of the British Empire, and it was true of the Soviet Union. The more insane politics in the United States becomes—keeping in mind that there have been two assassination attempts against a current presidential nominee and former president two months apart, and that the sitting president was forced out of running for re-election against his will after winning his party’s primary by secretive elements within the party—the more inevitable I believe it becomes for the American Empire as well.

After the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump, Democrats and the corporate media paused for a few days in comparing him to Adolph Hitler or saying his existence is a threat to American democracy; after this second attempt, they immediately pivoted to it being his fault that people keep trying to kill him and that it’s a threat to American democracy for him to say that their rhetoric could have anything to do with it. A day after the second attempt against Trump’s life, two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton went on MSNBC and said, “I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is” and that he has a “desire to be a dictator.” In other words, she was all but quoting the words of the would-be assassin directly.

When Donald Trump says anything it’s an incitement to violence, even when the violence is theoretical at best and imaginary in reality, but when a Democrat in good-standing with the corporate media, military industrial complex, and Deep State spouts the same talking points as a man who actually attempted to kill Donald Trump it is not incitement to violence. Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist tried to hold these people accountable to their own standard on X.

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The problem is that their standard is not that irresponsible, bombastic rhetoric leads to regrettable political violence; their standard is to destroy anybody who would try to limit or stand in the way of their having political power in the United States. Claiming that Trump’s rhetoric leads to violence helps them gain power, and claiming that Trump is an existential threat to democracy who must be stopped at all costs also helps them gain power. Gaining power is the principle, and anyone attempting to take power from them is an enemy to be eliminated, whatever that means. They will say or do whatever they deem to be necessary to make sure that Donald Trump loses the 2024 election.

The game is no longer fellow Americans disagreeing with one another in good faith, if it ever was, but war against your enemies. And, if you support Donald Trump, that is how people like Hillary Clinton view you: As their enemy. If you’re on X demanding that they abide by the same principles they demand that you abide by then you have already lost because you’re playing the wrong game with your eyes closed; it’s like being a pro-wrestler throwing staged punches in the ring with a UFC cage-fighter trying to choke you out. Trump may win the 2024 election, but if he and his supporters keep acting as if their political enemies don’t want to destroy them then his second-term will be as ineffectual and pointless as his first. The other option, and more likely outcome, is that Trump will start going after the people who went after him, he has promised to do so, in a series of escalations on each side that leads to more and more actual political violence and inevitable civil war in some form or another. The best choice, however, is to simply walk away from one another.

There are some people, such as Hillary Clinton, who want to rule over the rest of us because they are power-hungry sociopaths, but I don’t believe that most people are like that. As I said earlier, I believe that the United States breaking up is inevitable at this point, so why not avoid as much strife and violence as possible and start that process now? I believe that the only way to heal the political divisions within the United States is the peaceful breakup of the United States into smaller political units. The reason that Americans and Canadians aren’t at each other’s throats politically is because neither group has political power over the other, so why not do a National Divorce within the United States so that political enemies have less or no political power over each other?

Let’s say that Donald Trump wins a second-term as President of the United States in the 2024 election, but states like California and New York vote for Kamala Harris. Why should Donald Trump have any political power over states that did not vote for him, and, maybe more importantly, why should Donald Trump or his supporters want to have political power over people in states who did not vote for him? Maybe it’s time for us all to reconsider if political union between all 50 states is in all of our best interests. Given that there is a particular presidential candidate nearly getting killed every other month and we know that no matter what the results of this election are the side that loses will never accept those results, it seems clear that the United States has gotten to big and that we would all be better off if we wished each other well and walked away.