Friday, June 24, 2022. I’m marking this day as the beginning of America’s next civil war. The demise of Roe is the 21st-century analog to South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceding from the Union several months before the Civil War turned hot in April 1861. This Roe decision is the first profound fracturing of the nation, and it cannot be repaired. There is no reconciliation, especially given this Court is going to deprive minorities of more rights in the next couple of years. However, it is likely the states and citizens will have taken up arms against each other by then.
Look, morons. I truly see no other way through this moment. I have been warning that America is headed for a new civil war — sometimes suggesting the culture war has already put us there. But I think this ruling is a watershed moment, and as I have said before that there is no way back; the only way is through. This SCOTUS is not going to backtrack on the course they have set, and, in fact, the Court is only going to get more radical for the next 20 years. How can a nation survive in the coming decades where more and more people find themselves living in a country where blue states are islands among a sea of red — by geography, not population. How can a nation endure whereby minorities passing through an itinerary of states gain and lose rights with each border crossing as if a dimmer light switch — or as if traveling from one country to another! Consider in state A a person has all their civil rights, but in state B only half the rights, and then in state C only 10 percent of rights. How does that work? It cannot. One thing that is supposed to bind America is the notion that people all have the same or very similar civil rights among states, but what SCOTUS has begun to do — and will continue to do — is widen the gulf all in the name of states’ rights. That gulf is created not by preventing the expansion of rights, but by taking rights away. Eventually, the country will be so fractured — in short order — that states and, indeed, people within states — will not wish to be neighbors. This Court has set us upon a path of utter destruction. Roe is the powderkeg, and six justices lit the fuse, indifferent to the consequences. Welcome to stupid America! “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Indeed!