The More You Think, The More You Worry....

The more I think about this election, the more I worry.  About the odd things.  I don't (particularly) worry that Romney might win.  If Romney wins, the debt explodes, rich people get a hell of a lot richer and we attack two more countries in the mid-east (Syria and Iran right away).  If Obama wins, the debt grows and we are in for a few more years of anemic "Republic Lite" which the Republicans will scream is socialism.
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No, I worry that any outcome is so close to 50-50 that we will never agree again.  And while I wish it weren't so, I think the election might just harden thoughts.  Particularly if we elect more and more strident partisans.
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A smart man (ERN) thinks that the answer is a break up of the country into two or four groups (the south & mountain plains and the rest or  the south, the northeast, the midwest and the west - depending).  I tended not to believe for a long time - it might be too hard to unravel the whole, you know UNITED States, thing.
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But Scotland just got a vote to devolve in 2014, Catalan is working on one.  If so, maybe that is the way we go - and maybe it would be for the best.  Culturally the south, Texas plus, West Coast, Northeast and Midwest are pretty different.
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George W. Bush blew it.  After 9/11 he should have called us together as a country - asked for sacrifice, and moved us forward.  He told us to shop and go to Disneyland.