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National divorce.

That’s what Georgia right-wing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again advocating: a divorce between Republican and Democratic states with the federal government being a small overseer of the two divided union.

Now Ms. Greene knows a thing or two about divorce. She recently divorced her husband after numerous media reports circulated about her alleged adulterous affairs with other men which left their marriage “irreconcilably broken.”

That will do it every time.

And Ms. Greene, even before her congressional days, has also been a longtime divorcee of Sanity, preferring to life partner with Insanity to help her through the tumultuous paths of life. There is the proverbial saying that, “ignorance is bliss.”

It’s worth looking at some basic facts before the Red and Blue states disavow their constitutional marriage:

• Red Union would get 8 of the 10 states with the highest unemployment.
• Red Union would get the five states with the highest murder rate.
• Red Union would get 6 out of the top 10 states with the highest suicide rate.
• Red Union would get 9 out of the top 10 states with the highest poverty rates.
• Red Union would only get 3 out of the top 10 most educated states.
• Red Union would get 8 out of the top 10 states with the highest divorce rates.

The last fact may be appealing to the congresswoman but it doesn’t appear that given these basic social facts, the Red Union would benefit from a “national divorce.”

However, for someone whose marriage to Sanity is “irreconcilably broken,” it may seem like a good deal—sort of like shopping for that “ocean front property in Arizona.”

As if America does not have enough problems, the country of “one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” must now fret over some of its elected leaders calling for a “national divorce” (QAnon speech for “succession”) in order to keep political and racial divisions alive.

I lost six minutes of precious sleep last night fretting over Rep. Greene’s “national divorce,” and tack on another lost hour of life  preparing this post.