Why?

This seems like an awful lot of work. Why not keep things the way they are?


For twenty years, the U.S. has been evenly divided on almost every issue in every arena: foreign policy, domestic spending, social issues - you name it. In the last three presidential terms, it has become even more polarized.

There isn't enough of a majority in either body of Congress for the wishes of the people to move forward. Even when one party or another wins a majority, it isn't a big enough majority to stop a filibuster in the Senate. The country is too evenly divided to create a majority capable of getting things done with these rules. Most Americans don't take the time to understand how their own government works, and they just get frustrated that things don't get done. Many "independents" flip from one side to the other, election after election, never creating a clear majority, and wonder why "throwing the bums out" doesn't work. It will never work.

Here at Two Country Solution we don't believe that the acceptable result of this is to simply tolerate a lack of progress (on either side) because there's no majority capable of overcoming resistance from the other. The way things are currently designed, neither side will be happy. Why be unhappy?

We're not advocating an abandonment of the system. We're advocating living with people who want to live the way you do, so a majority can be achieved and progress can be made. Turns out that we already do - it was relatively easy to carve the country in half along the red state / blue state lines. Basically, most of the liberals live in the North and West, and most of the conservatives live in the central and Southern states.

History is replete with countries that have formed when the desires of large amounts of the population disagree with the others. There's nothing sacred or special about all fifty states staying fifty united states. Take one look at the map showing how people vote and you'll see that we're correct about this - we don't agree, and we're not going to agree. So why keep our governments together? Wouldn't both sides be happier if they could move forward with the things they want to get done?

Since everyone loves the Constitution, let's start there - both sides keep the Constitution. Then we evolve on our own. By dividing roughly along voting lines, the new Congresses in the new unions would have clear majorities, and things that both sides have wanted done will be accomplish in short order. And, for a period of time, people can decide which country they'd rather live in. After that, it would be like visiting another country, which is no big deal. (Admit it - in many ways, it already IS like visiting another country.)

Things have to evolve in order to improve and survive. At least, the Northern U.S. would believe that. The Southern U.S. would be comforted in knowing they'd be able to conform their new country into a more God-fearing nation. We can still visit each other, we'd just need passports. And it would be in both countries' best interest to keep trade flowing freely.

You can call it a crazy idea, and maybe it is. But, imagine how great it would be! It took the imagination of the founding fathers - and their desire to set their own destiny - in order for the crazy Revolutionary War to occur. What's wrong with liberals and conservatives wanting to set their own destiny, too? Why always be blocked? Texas has wanted to secede for years - why stop them? You see from the map that we already live in areas dominated by one philosophy or another. Why shouldn't each control their futures? What's the point in neither side getting what they want?

Remember this idea the next time you want to complain about Congress and the lack of things getting done. It will never change as long as we're divided on these issues. Never.


But if we divide, what might happen in the two new countries?

Great question! That leads us to... The Aftermath.