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@perpetualmystic I hear you. It's truly disheartening. A third of our population seem perfectly happy with fascism, as long as it's "their guys" at the top, and too many others cope by convincing themselves both sides are the same, or that there's nothing they can do about any of it, and check out altogether.
@perpetualmystic I don't think a national divorce is the answer, though. It would have dire consequences for those many millions of people trapped in the fascist substate that would result—which would share many long borders with the substate committed to democracy. The most economically-vulnerable among us would suffer the most.
@perpetualmystic I remember when NM flipped red in 2004 after a a squeaker of a vote for Gore in 2000. Blue-state people wanted a national divorce then, too, and I recall feeling real terror. I enjoy a lot of privilege, with my middle-class-ish whiteness and apparent cishet-ness, but we had a disabled child and were struggling financially; we would've had a very hard time moving out-of-state. I think many, many people want to live in a democracy, even in the reddest of states.
@perpetualmystic I think we owe it to them—and to the children and grandchildren of those who are running off the rails in favor of fascism—to stay in the fight for a re-unified USA.
That said, this era of delusion, dvision, and denial truly does suck.