KING of the UNITED STATES

Fine.  Let’s stop the fighting.  There’s just little point in persisting to seek a sunny morning where we discover we actually all agree.

We are always migrating to polarity of everything.  Us against them, our team versus your team, yin versus yang, good versus bad, the black hats versus the white hats, and the Republicans versus the Democrats.

We can’t persist with this.  It works well with our sporting events, and we get great cathartic release from these; but it is crippling us in the realm of national affairs.  "A house divided against itself cannot stand" was the great lesson learned from the Civil War.  And yet we are annihilating ourselves in internal polarization, while the rest of the world delights in our self-mutilating behavior.

Therefore, it is time to stop the bickering and Institute the facility for the Two Americas.

Let there be two sub-cells to the USA. Let there now be two sub capitals: Reagantown, and Clintonville.

Let there be two "wards": clearly the West Coast and New England will belong to one ward, and the majority of that in between, and Alaska belonging to the other ward.  Some of those deeply blue states in the middle are going to be more sticky, but we shouldn’t let that get in the way of moving forward.

Washington will be gutted.  Washington will function as a skeletal overview only; a stripped-down shell of minimalism. Primarily, it will function as a tourist center; a museum of artifacts and delightful history.  Beneath this essentials-only core, the two camps will be able to exist in a far more self-guided and self-determined fashion.  We shall end up with two distinct experiments with real results to make the cases we’ve heard made hypothetically so many many times.

Why not do this? What is there to be afraid of, a decline in the world?  Domestic and international turmoil?  Financial peculiarities and instabilities? Hmm, why do those sound familiar?

Do I have this all figured out?  Hell no.  But are we poised to resolve our deep internal divided?  Hell no, as well.

But it is a unique time in front of us.  We have a deep and pronounced divide in our nation; and yet, it’s carved out very neatly!  The issues separating us are distinct and grouped neatly to a convenient left and right.  We are not going to resolve feelings on abortion.  We’re not going to resolve positions on gun ownership, on entitlements and welfare, on socialization of healthcare and banking.

California may have tons of oil off its coast, but no one will make them go for it!  If Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want it, we won’t make her get it.  But her ability to thwart Texas and Florida and the lower East Coast will be eliminated.  Other regions can begin to enjoy the resources of their land!

So we’ll need a new flag. Maybe one gets horizontal stripes. Or maybe Obama can come up with a new symbol.

Our two sub capitals can become experiments in efficiency or bloat; entitlements or self dependence. And a terminal partisan stand-off can cease to rattle in our ears day and night, while nothing of any merit EVER gets accomplished.