The truth of the matter is, we don't need a new form of government (the old form being Democracy). Another poster at this Christian Forum (stevew) started a thread that discussed two main opposing views in the US - liberal and conservative. The gap between these two ideologies is the widest it has ever been and there appears to be no slowing down the gap. Many people I heard have suggested this answer and maybe its time we seriously consider it. Divide the US in half, one side liberal, one side conservative. Give people five years or so to pick up and get to the side they want to belong.
Instead of this constant fighting we have every election, polarizing people more and more, lets take example from my country Czechoslovakia and split the US in two. The last I checked (no pun intended) both countries (The Czech Republic and The Republic of Slovakia) are doing well. I don't see why we couldn't make it work here in the US (except for greed sticking its ugly nose in the situation).
I'm sure you are wondering how I would split the US. I think that should be determined by smarter people than me but make sure the citizens of the US hold those people's feet to the fire (and I mean literally, none of this "let's put this into committee for 10 years to consider it").
Is Slovakia doing all that well these days? I don't mean that as a challenge, but as a real question. I had an uncle who has since reposed who lived in Partizanske and taught English to workers in their shoe factory there for many years (20+), and from what I remember of our brief communications after he moved there, it seemed like a very 'rustic' place. He even sent me pictures from a trip to Bratislava for Christmas holidays, and it looked very quaint. Not necessarily poor or anything like that (I'm not sure what counts for rich or poor there; my uncle said he lived very comfortably on the equivalent of $200 USD per month, but again this was many years ago by this point), but like it was considerably less developed than a big, internationally-known city like Prague in its sister nation.
I bring that up because I would worry for the 'poorer' half of the U.S. in the event of such a split (even though it's not going to happen, no matter how much that makes some on both political poles sad). And there
would be a poorer 'half', as there already is (the deep southern states, the rust belt...take your pick; a lot of the U.S. is poor compared to the urban centers on the East and West coasts). States like Mississippi and others already pay less to the federal government in taxes than they get from it in return, so we could reasonably imagine that such states would be immediately worse off than they currently are, and perhaps not too likely to be able to dig themselves out of that condition. Add to that that even some states that pay more than they get, like Texas, show that their famed/dreamed-of 'independence' is actually their Achilles heel (the 2021 power crisis in that state and the 246+ deaths attributed to it bearing witness). What would we do, in cases like that? How does it benefit anyone involved that the aid that would be sent to Texas (or Mississippi, or any famously politically conservative state) would have to be marked as 'foreign aid' rather than domestic?
Maybe I'm a weirdo because I don't want political adversaries to suffer on account of their wrong positions, but that would remain my concern. In every place where we think we have 'enemies', we also have friends, or at least people we ought to recognize as fellow human beings in need of cooperation and help, as we all need. I don't see any solution in destroying what little collective spirit the U.S. seems to have these days for the sake of having 'my' territory and 'their' territory. The point of the United States, at least in the modern day, as that we're...y'know...united.
E pluribus unum and all that, even though that's always been more of a goal than a reality. That still ought to be the goal, in my mind. But again, maybe I'm a weirdo. Haha.
