Politics and Prose
Kent Greenfield — Secession: Why Our Country Should Split Up (And How to Do It Peacefully) — at Conn Ave
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A book that will launch a million debates. Constitutional law professor Kent Greenfield delivers the highly provocative yet carefully reasoned case for secession, arguing that the fractures within the US run so deep, rendering our politics so dysfunctional, that the best way to heal is to initiate a nonviolent national divorce between the blue and red states. The truth is that our nation is broken. More divides us than unites us, and our constitutional framework is accelerating, not healing, those divisions, making them impossible to cure. We have become two rather than one. And a house divided against itself cannot stand. Americans already sense this reality. We are frustrated, angry, fearful, and pessimistic about our current condition. Less than one in four voters b…
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