The Divided STATEs of America

I pledge allegiance to the Flag, of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands, one Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

This is our current Pledge of Allegiance ~ the fourth iteration since the original.

If you’d like the truest depiction of the current state of our country, I’ve replaced a few words.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag, of the Divided States of America, and to the Autocracy for which it stands, one Nation, without God, divisible, with liberty and justice for all.

My use of autocracy is hyperbolic. America is not autocratic, but it feels like democracy as we’ve come to know it is slipping away. I also don’t believe we are without God; I just don’t believe God is foundational to our country. He has been usurped if He ever was foundational ~ replaced by the almighty Me.

I don’t believe we’re headed for Civil War 2, but if nothing changes, we may be steamrolling toward mass secession.

It won’t happen in the next fifty years, but a Great Divorce is happening as I write. The groundwork is being laid. The papers haven’t been signed but a de facto divorce has already happened. Democrats and Republicans are sleeping in separate beds, begrudgingly living together in the same cities, states and country…