"we've got em surrounded! the west and northeast, go against the center! We can do it!"
haha, that's so funny, because looking at the electoral map today in history class, i couldn't stop thinking about the red and the blue as being enemy territories (in the upcoming civil war, of course), and how easy it would be for the blue to invade the red. think about it: the red states are largely unpopulated compared to the blue, so if we put all our people on the borders, we could march through hundreds of miles unhindered. then there's the issue of having them surrounded - i mean sure, they could retreat into mexico or canada... but republicans? mexico? canada? they just don't go together. then i started thinking about the insurgents - in some cases, almost half of a blue state's residents are republican, and vice-versa. but you have to admit, that would make it awfully interesting. oh, yes, and what of DC? last night it voted 90% kerry, and yet it not only contains all of the republican controled cabinet, congress, and [recently republican controlled] senate, (and all of the founding documents... which would surely be burned if left in the hands of the republican horde) but is completely surrounded by red states. our first priority would have to be to carve a path down to DC and rescue it.
I'll stop now, but obviously you can see what the childish political discourse in an 11th grade history classroom ("John Kerry's face is so stupid!" "Oh yeah, well my mom says that Bush is a moron!") can lead a person to think about. |
