Just Because She's Getting a Divorce...

 

     ...it doesn't mean we have to.

    Frankly, I don't know why the MSM are treating Marjorie Taylor Greene's idiotic statements about "a national divorce" as if it's the newest idiocy to come out of her mouth. It isn't. She floated that ridiculous idea just last year. Everybody laughed and moved on.

     But now it's a year or so later and MTG now has her committee assignments back and not just any committee assignments but the powerful House Oversight and Homeland Security committees. Yes, a Republican on the Homeland Security Committee is seriously advancing an idea of a national division that would, at the very least, endanger national security.

     Let's examine, not that this should be worthy of examination, how stupid Greene's idea is. First off, dividing the country according to what's a "red" or a "blue" state is idiotic because states don't always remain red or blue. Take Arizona and Michigan, the only state legislature the Democrats flipped, in the last midterms. At least during the Civil War, there was a natural dividing line and that line was slavery. All 11 states that made up the confederacy had one thing in common- They had slavery and were determined to keep it, even after losing the war and the 13th amendment banning slavery being ratified.

     But, in MTG's world view, once a red or blue state, always a red or blue state. But states flip power all the time, as with Arizona and Michigan, which both swept all the major state-wide races. So, even if in the insane chance MTG sees her wet dream come true, states would be rotated in and out on a near constant basis. Snap On, Snap Off?

     Secondly, think what that would do for national security. Many if not most of those red states would be non-contiguous would be nearly impossible to defend in the event some foreign power tried to invade us. And could we trust the red state leaders to not make deals that today would be considered treasonous with the leaders of the invading nation(s)?

    And think how such a division would dilute the military strength of our nation, with red state soldiers given the option of holding on to their federal allegiance or taking a chance with Margie's neo-confederacy. And who gets custody of the nuclear missile silos? We know who'd get them in the Dakotas (such as Minot AFB in North Dakota, for instance).

    And what would determine what's red or blue? Would it devolve on to which party the state governor belongs or which party controls the legislature? Or would this neoconfederacy hastily write and ratify bills or executive orders and keep moving the goal posts on where the dividing line is drawn based on who's in charge of what?

     Plus, as Barbara Walter told Jim Acosta on CNN tonight, history tells us that when a part of a nation wants to secede, the governing body will react violently. Witness our own Civil War that claimed 600,000 lives.

     But we can't afford to laugh off MTG because, in the last midterms, she won two thirds of the vote, so if there's ever going to be a neo-confederacy, dollars to donuts it'll start in the backwaters of Dalton County. But, while Greene's first election to Congress in 2020 was a joke, her continued incumbency and growing power in Congress isn't. Remember, she got two major committee assignments just because the right wing got the House majority and currently have a four seat edge. She had enough leverage and clout to essentially write her own ticket just because McCarthy so lusted after that gavel that he would've done anything for her vote and support.