{"id":6743,"date":"2015-07-15T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6743"},"modified":"2015-07-15T08:41:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:41:31","slug":"an-american-viewpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6743","title":{"rendered":"An American viewpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/United_States_flag_upside_down.svg_-300x158.png\" alt=\"United_States_flag_(upside_down).svg\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/United_States_flag_upside_down.svg_-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/United_States_flag_upside_down.svg_-450x237.png 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/United_States_flag_upside_down.svg_.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 The American who wrote this is a college law student, studying law.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Divorce Agreement between Americans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950&#8217;s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let&#8217;s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way. So, here is our separation agreement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.<\/p>\n<p>You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.<\/p>\n<p>Since you hate guns and war, we&#8217;ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O&#8217;Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO&#8217;s and rednecks.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep Bill O&#8217;Reilly, and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we&#8217;ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.<\/p>\n<p>You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.<\/p>\n<p>When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we&#8217;ll help provide them security.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep our Judeo-Christian values.<\/p>\n<p>You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep the SUV&#8217;s, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.<\/p>\n<p>You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep &#8220;The Battle Hymn of the Republic&#8221; and &#8220;The National Anthem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be happy to substitute &#8220;Imagine&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;d Like to Teach the World to Sing,\u201d &#8220;Kum Ba Ya&#8221; or &#8220;We Are the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.<\/p>\n<p>Since it often so offends you, we&#8217;ll keep our history, our name and our flag.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the spirit of friendly parting, I&#8217;ll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>John J. Wall <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Law Student and an American<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ed. \u2013 The American who wrote this is a college law student, studying law.) &nbsp; A Divorce Agreement between Americans Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950&#8217;s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6749,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}