With the Presidential result for the 2020 election in the United States still hanging in the balance, and Donald Trump pushing litigation in some closely contested states such as Wisconsin and Michigan, demanding counts be stopped, and further demanding the Supreme Court intervene to decide the election in his favor, I have come to a recent revelation about the misnomer of the "United States of America." We are not the United States, and maybe never have been, and that perhaps secession between "red states" and "blue states" is the best option at this point of seeming no return in our ever-polarized environment. The fact this election is even close when you have on the watch of Donald Trump kids in cages separated from their parents, the worst pandemic in 102 years crippling the world and America, with over 100,000 Covid-19 cases in the United States yesterday - a record, the administration already has said plainly they have no intentions of controlling, and a sitting President who in the simplest terms is attacking American democracy in an effort to remain in office is beyond all hopes for description. The fact 2016 was not a fluke, the fact that half of America votes in favor of despotism, narcissism, denial of science, evidence, and reason, even if it means the destruction of the health and life of themselves and their children and grandchildren is beyond depressing, and makes me believe we just need to call the 150 year experiment since the Civil War for what it is - a failure and move on. We have lived as two separate nations with incompatible ideologies for at least a century and a half if not since America's inception. It's time to amicably separate as two nations, and end the "United States" hypocrisy.  

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