I'm afraid it's only going to get worse

From The Washington Post:

As the 2006 campaign staggered to an angry close, national security and the Iraq war dominated the final-day debate of midterm elections in which national themes, not simply local choices, have framed the most competitive races. Democrats said a vote for them would force change in Iraq strategy, while President Bush led the GOP charge in warning that the opposition party cannot be trusted in a time of war.

Dozens of too-close-to-call House and Senate races finished on a surly tone, as the traditional political strategy of shifting to a positive message at campaign's end gave way this year to a calculation that the best chance to tip the balance was through continued attacks over personal character and alleged corruption.

The divide between the parties seems to be growing wider by the day. It is now very hard to see how any reconciliation is possible. I, for one, believe that the time is approaching when the two sides will find it impossible to live together in peace.

Civil wars are always the most savage. Tens of millions of people will be slaughtered in the most horrible ways imaginable as the two sides vent decades of pent up rage upon one another. A trillion dollars and more of wealth will vanish as entire cities and the bulk of their populations are wiped from the face of the earth.

It would be greatly to the advantage of all the peoples of the United States to keep this from happening. As I see it the best option would be for some kind of division with the red states and the blue states forming separate governments. I know that this would inconvenience large numbers of red state liberals and blue state conservatives, but the alternative is having people drag you out of your house in the middle of the night and hack you apart with machetes so I think they can deal.

I would do almost anything to stop the coming civil war. I would see the blue states split from the United States and join Canada. I would see them form their own independent nation a "Union of Soviet Socialist American Republics", so to speak. I would see all the liberals pack up their belongings and move to France.

But the one thing I would not do to stop the coming storm is see things go on as they are now. I am tired of living in an house divided against itself. I am tired of having every election be a referendum on the very survival of the Republic. I am tired of having people like Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry hanging over my and my nation's head like the Sword of Damocles. I'm tired of living in a country whose colleges and universities turn out class after class of brainwashed zombies whose ability to think for themselves has been destroyed by years of leftist indoctrination by venomous intellectual lightweights like Noam Chomsky and Ward Churchill.

I am frankly tired of sharing my living space with beings whose humanity I am finding it harder and harder to recognize and who, I'm coming to believe, would best contribute to the future of humanity by serving as fertilizer for someone's corn field.

Let's figure out an answer before it comes to that.