Should the USA Consciously Uncouple for the Good of the People?

Nope. The trough feeders are mostly your base: white, uneducated, drug-addled, fat-ass racists who are so gullible that they believe that Trump is "fighting for them" (he's not, he's a conman and grifter) and that Haitians immigrants are eating dogs/cats in Springfield, OH. On the plus side for you, Glitter Bomb, your 75 IQ will make you one of the "geniuses" of Red State-land!! They'll worship you!!! You can be king of the morons!

Man, that is lame. I guess Russia isn't sending their best disinformation purveyors to LRC, lol.

Why send anyone to spread disinformation when you can just stay at home and sell it to Hillary?

Well at least your mom will provide Trump with one female vote😉

There are several books and websites devoted to The National Divorce.

Good. Maybe Democrats can read one when they are done reading the Communist Manifesto.

I don't know who you think you're trolling, punk, but this is zero level quality. Zero. Your mom would be embarrassed.

The “Red” state would quickly engage in mass book bannings and speech suppression all the while begging for handouts to restore the quality of life the evil liberals once provided for them with economic growth.

Oh how I would love to see the US balkanise.

Nobody is going to be banning books in my side. Don't fret Harambe, you will still be able to read the Twilight series as many times as you want.

My side would be much like a red neck mud fest, with manly men driving their big trucks and side by sides through the mud, shooting guns in the air, with hot chicks everywhere in American Flag bikinis. The next morning, we get up and go to work at our real jobs. Your side would be a perpetual local production of the Broadway show Hairspray at the downtown theater, with everyone dressed in their 3/4 length chinos, salmon colored polos, and shoulder bags. The next morning, after waking up at 10:00 and going to hot yoga class with the boyfriend, you blog about your feelings.

Wow, putting in the hours on the troll farm here aren't we?

Logistically it would be difficult and would have many of the flaws of Europe (we need the common defense). A better model would be to weaken the federal government and expand state rights (which is what the courts did with Roe and what Trump and Ramaswamy have proposed. Limit the feds to the national defense (get anway from policing the world) and the currency. Stop trying to Californicate or New Yorkify the country and leave most control to the state level to reflect their values locally.

We did an entire debate-team style section on this topic in my constitutional law class a few years ago. Oddly, the responses were much different than what I see on this thread.

It’s a worthy exercise to think about and study. You begin to appreciate your fellow Americans.

That’s glitter bomb’s life. He’s a huge loser. Without this forum he would have nothing.

Use of pronouns

Trans in women sports

whether abortion should be a Federal issue or a State issue

You know, the important stuff.

FIFY ^

The fact of the matter is that the red states need the blue states and vice versa. California alone has the 5th largest economy in the world. The red states would not survive.

If real life losers like Glitter Bomb don't like it in the US they can go to Russia, China, or N Korea where I'm sure that they would find a lot of like-minded comrades.

Yes Russia, China, N Korea is the utopia the red cultists are all hoping for. That's the end goal of the Trump party for America. Though conservatives are so brainwashed that even after their nation would turn into that sort of freedom-less hell hole they might still be worshipping their political leaders just as there are plenty of people in those countries as brainwashed as republicans that they thank their corrupt totalitarian leaders for subjugating them.

One this is for sure, "red state" nation would quickly devolve into a third world country. Think about some middle east countries - repressive and oppressive religious authoritative regimes that suppress people's rights especially if you're a woman or of the wrong religion and keep the rich super wealthy while the people suffer - that's basically an exact definition of american conservatives and their values and desires. Red State would be a third world country within just a few years and any self respecting woman would or non-white or non-christian would flee to Blue State very quickly if they have the means to move. Red State would therefore probably focus a lot of money on building border walls to keep people IN, specifically women, so they wouldn't all flee. There would be plenty of trade between Blue State and Red State, expect as the red state economy and culture and society and rights goes into free fall within the first few years, it'd get increasingly hard for them to buy imports from Blue State as their economic means for imports would be trash, while Blue State could easily afford to buy food from Red State and agricultural exports to Blue State would become perhaps the major industry keeping Red State alive.

Both of these new nations would have to adjust a lot, but Blue State would likely stay basically America though without the giant global military influence (and so without all that military spending) and with a lot more rights for the people, although sure higher taxes. The two main parties in Blue State would likely be moderates and leftists, with moderates dominating and keeping most of the dumber leftist ideas at bay. While Red State would be a third world nightmare, a human rights disaster, and would likely cause a lot of problems for Blue State simply by being such a corrupt and troubled and poor country right next to Blue State. Rest State would end up being a single party totalitarian religious regime where women have no rights and free speech is lauded in political speeches but completely abandoned in reality. You'd have a govt that every year tries to be more extreme than it was the previous year (as we already have in the republican party) and it's "justice" system would be driven mostly by political retribution against non-loyalists, whereas laws basically wouldn't apply to elite loyalists (which is what the republicans party has been implementing in America the past decade).

For the sake of all Americans, this would be a nightmare. While Blue State would very likely become a better place to live than USA (though by no means perfect), Red State would be a catastrophic nightmare and so splitting up would be a terrible idea.