A silent secession is advancing dangerously in the United States

By: Beatrice E. Rangel - 27/09/2023

Congresswoman Marjory Taylor-Greene proposed months ago that the red states - that is, those controlled by the Republican Party - be "divorced from the blue states controlled by the Democrats." She was immediately reprimanded by the authorities of her party for considering that these statements "specially affect democratic institutions." In fact, according to some interpreters of American laws, Representative Taylor Greene incurred the crime of subversion.

But what is worrying about the fact is that what was expressed by Representative Taylor-Greene enjoys growing popularity in many sectors of North American society. Proof of this is that on the digital page “We the People” nested in the White House server and created Under Barack Obama, under his presidency, more than one million individual requests for secession have been received from the 50 states of the union. In short, there are a million citizens who think that the country should begin a process of dissolving the union created by, among others, Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Franklin.

From the point of view of political culture, the prevailing currents seem to point in that direction. State leaders led by Ron de Santis of Florida and Greg Abbot of Texas have turned immigrants crossing the Rio Grande into political weapons by placing them on buses and dispatching them to the jurisdictions of liberal governors. With this, they have created a crisis of supply, housing, and the supply of public services such as health and schools. Everywhere in the states governed by liberal governors, slums built with camping tents in public squares are seen.

From the point of view of political discourse, the days when Democrats and Republicans knew the limits of the conflict have disappeared. Today the insistence on imposing the rules of the game on the other party is of such power that the authorization to pay for activities that support the country's national security and that are executed by the Secretary of Defense is being held up in the House of Representatives. No one dares to predict how long this impasse will last because it is a rebellion by the Republican forces against the president of the House of Representatives whom they consider too centrist.

None of these processes alone would be capable of destroying democracy in the United States. But everyone working in devilish harmony can create the conditions for a great schism. And in the United States, schisms are settled with wars and wars in this 21st century can take a horrifying course.

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