 There was once a couple who lived in some northern state like Maine and they decided to move to some southern state like Alabama for a business venture and after a while unfortunately the business venture didn't didn't quite work out so the husband decides that he's going to move back north because you know he's from there and he's going to get a job back in Maine. So he moves back to Maine. The wife Harvard decides she doesn't really want to move and she really kind of likes it here and she's going to stay here and make it work and they had bought a house and they moved and they still own their old house so you know she stayed in the new house he went back to Maine stayed in the house in Maine gets a job and over the years no one really changes anything stays in Maine and works and you know has a job has a life and she stays in Alabama and gets to know people and lives in the house and so you know several years later down the line when they get a divorce no one's really that surprised hello everyone Dylan Schumacher citadel defense and in my twitter feed the past couple days the conversation about national divorce has been has been trending recently because MTG from one of the Carolinas South Carolina North Carolina I think it's South Carolina tweeted that it's time for national divorce which is encouraging and lots of people you know flipped out and talked about how that's ridiculous and that's insane and I have been surprised at the number of people from the right who think that that's a bad idea now maybe I shouldn't be too harsh on them because originally when I heard that idea I scoffed at it and mocked it and I've probably done that in a past video on this channel even however I have certainly come around for quite a while now that I certainly believe that that is the only valid option left and let's talk about why reason number one much like my parable we live in two different Americas already and maybe even more than two you could argue and I would certainly be open to that so let's look at guns as an example because gun laws vary wildly in this country we have a national gun law right it's the second amendment the militia being necessary to the security of the free state the right of the people to keep in their arms shall not be infringed but depending on where you are in America that is interpreted quite differently right so for example I stand here wearing a pistol and if there were if I were to simply cross a state borderline I'm still in America but I cross into other states I would instantly become a felon right because I'm not allowed to carry a pistol in those states and then sweet irony my conviction as a felon then invalidates my god-given right to carry a pistol in the state in which I reside simply by crossing a state line I become a felon it's not like a ticket it's not like oh you know we don't really like that here so we're gonna find you a couple hundred dollars it is years of the felony is uh 10 years in jail hundred thousand dollar fine right like it is years of my life that I would instantly have to give to the state and be in a prison because of something that I'm doing right now that is one thousand percent legal and fully okay something I do every day in my life that's just fine not a problem at all all the sudden becomes a felony something which has been guaranteed as a right from a national law level from the constitution since the founding of the nation now I look at that and I say that's two different countries that's not the same country now you could argue oh of course it is and uh however at the end of the day look at the results it's two different americas you you can look at a bunch of different things with that right you can look at abortion laws for example right they're half this country believes that abortion is actual murder like you're literally murdering a human being and the other half calls it healthcare okay you look at the the transgender and the lgbt qaip stuff and you start to get a picture that there are drastically different views and if you live in new york city you are living in a different america than if someone lives on the plains of kansas right those are completely different americas they have different presuppositions about what america is they have different desires for where america should go and they have a different understanding of how we should even get there completely look at the race relation stuff another great example half this country believes that white supremacy is the greatest threat to the nation the other half has no idea what that is right there there is a complete disconnect in how we perceive reality and how we think about this nation point number two those differences that we have are irreconcilable again this is not something about like we disagree on the corporate tax rate well you know i think the corporate tax rate should be like 10.7 percent well it's a little much i think it should be more like 8.3 right this isn't a disagreement like that this is a disagreement at the core foundation philosophical level that they cannot be reconciled i believe that murdering babies in the womb is just that murder and i think we should treat it legally like murder across the board there are other people of course who would say oh that's preposterous it's healthcare we're caring for women it's about women's rights there's no middle ground there show me the middle ground show me the compromise show me the unifying value that connects those two positions because it's certainly not like valuing human life for instance right it what is the connecting american core value that we're we're both you know committed to that we're able to work through that difference there isn't one and that goes for a variety of issues same thing with guns i believe it's your human god given right to be able to walk about armed as you please there are other people who would of course call that a terrorism and think that that's horrible and how dare you don't you don't have this right we need to care about public safety right there's no reconciliation there what's the reconciliation oh well you know just give us some of your guns well we're we're just going to pass these laws and you can't carry it in these places well you know we're just going to have to register your guns like there's no middle ground or compromise in that position same thing goes with the transgenderism and the l-key yelled gbtq aap thing right it's oh well you know we're only going to mutilate some little boys and girls parts and then we'll leave some other ones alone like what what's the middle ground there the differences that we have are both cultural and philosophical and they run to the very core of what we believe about humanity about morality and about what america is and should be there's no reconciling those differences no matter what side of the fence you're on in that you have to realize there's no reconciling there's no way to talk through that there's no way to come to a place of agreement because none of us value the same thing there was a time in this country when of course we did believe in core values right the people who created this nation had a common belief in core values not that they didn't argue and fight right thomas jefferson and john adams were famously friends they're not friends for a very long time and then wrecked south at the end of their lives and they both penn helped create the constitution they both helped start the revolution they both led the nation through it they were both president like they both cared deeply about america and liberty however they had they had differences that they debated on and how they thought it should be done exactly but at the end of the day they had some core values that they shared you show me the last president who shared core values with the last president before him and i'll show you unified nation we haven't had that at least my entire adult lifetime probably longer this is not something that is just brand new it feels like you can all this just happened how are we so divided all of a sudden but the truth is that we have been at this and slowly building that division as a nation for decades for decades this nation has been growing apart and growing into two different americas and so one day you wake up and and you wonder why mom and dad don't love each other anymore the divorce if you want to call it that and along people will equate that right with civil war well that's what he means that's not what i mean i don't think those are necessarily the same thing they don't certainly don't have to be uh the divorce is coming whether you want it to or not uh we are definitely past the point of no return for this nation because even if all of these cultural issues don't boil over between the people at this point the federal government is so bloated and so incompetent that it is going to collapse under its own weight and like we have seen in history hundreds of times before a government will no longer be able to do the things that it says it should be able to do and it will just crumple and the people will be left to pick up the pieces this has happened with countless empires throughout history and we're just another example and it's really that simple so to me the question is not like if the question is just when the federal government is so fat and grotesque and lacks so much competence it will no longer be able to sustain itself to exercise the authority and power that it once enjoyed so the only question my mind really becomes not when but how bad is it going to be when it happens point number four and don't get me wrong here i'm under zero illusion uh that the communists would ever be willing to come to the table and say well let's let's just divide up this fairly and evenly right this this won't this won't happen uh that that's not going to be a thing that would happen all as much as i would i would like it to happen i do not believe that the communists could ever let something go their religion demands that you comply so for them to let you go it's counter to their religion they can't do it there's a reason they had to build the iron curtain right there's a reason they had to build the berlin wall they can't let people leave because if they let people leave it doesn't work right they have to demand your compliance they have to demand your acceptance that's what the entire religion is built on so i'm under no illusions that we could you know come to the table and we could just agree i would love for that to happen but of course the communists could never let that happen so again i think that's why we'll get there because of the collapse of the federal government power and their authority rather than because of any mutual agreement we happen to reach point number five uh there's just a severe lack of trust in the government uh again a roughly half the nation believes that voting doesn't actually mean anything anymore we've lost faith in our elections which was our central mechanism for self-governance so if at least half of the nation has zero faith and and getting into the negative faith in government and the institutions that we once put our trust and faith in well then again well where can that go and this is one of the reasons i think libertarians just completely miss they completely uh dismiss cultural factors or problems like again guns abortion trans stuff they completely dismiss all those factors which is a huge mistake and then they say oh listen if we just reduce the size of the federal government you know then then we could actually do federalism like we could we could go back and you know the states could kind of be different that'd be good but we'd be governed by the same federal law and you know we could like turn the clock back i can't think of one his one empire in history that's ever been able to successfully turn the clock back i can't think of one if you can think of one honestly please tell me but i cannot think of a single empire in the history of the world that has been able to turn the clock back we've reached a point or again we no longer value the things we value and because we've lost that faith in the government people like me for instance will have no uh interest in pursue or putting my faith back in the government as long as i live ever again you can't turn that clock back you can't restore faith in governing institutions after it has been so thoroughly stomped underfoot lit on fire and then sent into a pit of venomous snakes that faith isn't coming back no matter what you do to reduce the size of the federal government which by the way is a near impossibility at this stage in the game this isn't something that's unique in human history by any stretch let's look at some old maps of europe to kind of give you an understanding that this is just how history goes you don't necessarily need to be emotional about it although there's plenty reasons to but let's just understand that this is a normal part of human history since we've left the garden so here's a map of europe in 300 bc okay as you can see the Celts dominate massive parts of europe we got into france and into germany there the Celts were a massive culture they eventually reached out into turkey like you have some massive massive cultural sweep there that little small red part if you can even read that in the middle of italy there that's rome that's the roman republic carthage is still a state half of you are like what's carthage the kingdom of mastodon is doing very well around this time and then you of course you have the celucid empire which is another greek empire after alexander the great died over there in turkey now let's fast forward a little bit now here we have a map of around a hundred ad give or take everything that's pink is the roman empire it has massively expanded in about 400 years and completely erased all of those different countries if you can call them that tribes cultures they no longer exist there is only rome and at this point it stretches from spain to turkey and covers almost everything in between and the glory of rome here is somewhat near its height rome will eventually reach all the way down into like bagdad for a couple years but rome has more or less gobbled up everything in its site and at that point if you're living in a hundred ad you would think rome is eternal we it's the eternal city it's never going to leave now you fast forward another 375 years and here you have europe again at the fall of the roman empire and all of a sudden the power of the rome seems so small and abysmal by comparison the eastern roman empire has hung on a little bit there in turkey and greece europe is a completely different place you have the vizygoths and the vandals now owned down into carthage you have the kingdom of odeser in italy can't even pronounce that and a million other kingdoms that have been carved up out of the corpse of the roman empire what once seemed eternal is now suddenly off the map fast forward again about another 500 years here to around a thousand ad and all of a sudden again europe is a completely different unrecognizable place the eastern roman empire to their credit still hanging on there in turkey you have the holy roman empire which is really just a germanic state who claims the title because they think it's cool uh dominating the middle you have the kingdom of the francs which are germanic people in france which is what it gets its name from some countries are starting to recognize that kind of sort of are around in the modern day like like the kingdom of england you have the kingdom of alba up in scotland and a bunch of other little kingdoms in ireland the duchy of poland you'll see exists and so does the principality of hungary and you start to see oh i kind of recognize some of those places like okay this is starting to look quote-unquote normal additionally you look at this map of a thousand ad and you see that spain and all of africa has been conquered by muslim tribes that have moved through and conquered almost all of spain and the entire top of africa you fast forward to 1500 ad which is another about 500 years and okay that the holy roman empire is kind of still a thing and in england and scotland and ireland have kind of solidified a little bit hungary still there poland still there lithuania has appeared out of nowhere that's cool the ottoman empire has arisen to crush the eastern roman empire and that no longer exists russia is kind of on the map now spain and portugal okay you know it's starting to look look normal here you fast forward to 1914 almost just over a hundred years ago and it's a completely different place yet again the austria austria hungary empire is at its i don't know what its peak but it's certainly about to die it doesn't make it out of world war one neither does the ottoman empire those don't survive world war one either africa at the bottom there has carved up into a bunch of different colonies here's a map from 1942 at the height of german power in the middle of world war two look at germany it is completely gobbled up almost everything to its east and its west it's crushed norway really sweden should even be part of germany there because sweden just completely capitulated and did whatever the nazis wanted so you see here that again the entire world looks different imagine living in france in 1942 when germany has rolled through and completely routed your entire army you've got to be thinking this is just life now this is it there's there's no going back from this like look at the might of the german army to have completely and utterly annihilated our entire existence there there this is it this is where we live now forever four short years later 1946 the world again looks completely different france has been restored germany has been carved up into the east and west in a bunch of different places poland and lithuania have been completely absorbed and gone into the soviet union along with romanian ukraine those aren't places they're just part of the soviet union at that point so i hope that wasn't too annoying but when you look at these maps over time you start to realize that nations rise and nations fall and that is the way of human history and yes of course no one wants to live through the fall of an empire the fall of a nation nobody that's not exciting for anybody but it's nothing new and it's nothing unique to the human experience and don't think that you're somehow going to escape the fate america won't last forever one way or another it won't happen and it might just be unfortunately a problem you have to deal with in your lifetime my last point here point number seven i think it's one of mine is that what's the alternative i think people who think of a national divorce or something like that think of that as the worst possible outcome that could possibly happen but i would say what's really the alternative to that is it to live under tyranny some of the worst tyranny america's ever experienced ever in its history indefinitely is it is it to hand your children into a despotism and to be slaves to some future tyrant who will continue to take more and more from them while crushing them into unending poverty what what's the alternative to a national divorce at what cost should we stay as one country what are you willing to pay in order for that to happen i don't think a national divorce is the worst thing that could ever happen i don't think that carving america up into separate nations who get to live more the way they want and in line with their values is is the worst possible thing that could happen i think the worst possible thing that could happen is for my children and their children to live under despotism and unending poverty forever i think that's far worse than the united states not being united states anymore there are some objections you know you commonly hear like well it'll it'll reduce our standing in the international world to which i would say yeah it will but our standing in the international world is tanking and will continue to tank the rest of our life no matter what that that ship is sailed again the federal government's passed the point in overturn it's going to crush itself under its own grotesque weight and so our standing is going to plummet no matter what people could say it won't work you know people died to keep america together we got to we got to make this work and i would say it's not working now and their blood will have been spilled in vain when the country turns to complete tyranny anyway so i don't really i understand that the desire to want to keep the nation together right e pluberis unum i probably mispronounced that and butchered that but out of many one right that that's the dream of america we have many states united into one and i get that i think that's an amazing dream however we have to live in line with reality and reality is the nation is so divided among so many irreconcilable differences that the best most peaceful resolution we could ever hope for would be that we would just decide to peacefully part ways do brave deeds and endure