Majorie Taylor Greene calls for a ‘National Divorce’ between Democrat and Republican-run

It’s not the first time Greene has called for a ‘national divorce’ along party lines

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia on Wednesday backed calls for an added tax for Americans moving to red states from the blue strongholds of California and New York.

She went on to advocate for a ‘national divorce’ between Democrat-run and Republican-run states.

The conservative firebrand lawmaker was responding to a Twitter post by an editor at the right-wing monthly magazine Chronicles, sounding off about Democrats moving to red states despite vocally opposing the majority’s politics.

‘I support actively discriminating against transplants like this through legislation. They shouldn’t be able to vote for a period, and they should have to pay a tax for their sins,’ Pedro L. Gonzalez wrote.

Greene retweeted Gonzalez post, adding: ‘All possible in a National Divorce scenario.’

She also accused Democrats of ‘brainwashing’ their own voters. 

‘After Democrat voters and big donors ruin a state like California, you would think it wise to stop them from doing it to another great state like Florida. Brainwashed people that move from CA and NY really need a cooling off period,’ Greene wrote.

One Twitter user said ‘national divorce’ was a vague term with no legal definition.

‘Could you let us know which parts of the Constitution you’re getting your genius ideas from? I can’t find anything about “National Divorce” or “cooling off periods” but obviously you know much more about it than the rest of us. Thanks in advance!’ wrote user @TheeKnifeBomb.

Another person, Layne Heiny, pointed out that economics experts projected California to have a $31 billion budget surplus next year.

‘DC politicians could learn a thing or two about budgets from CA,’ they added. 

She said people living in California and New York were ‘brainwashed’ by Democrats and their wealthy donors

The lawmaker was responding to the editor of a conservative magazine’s post calling for transplants from those states to not immediately get the right to vote there

It’s not the first time the pro-Trump Republican pushed for a ‘National Divorce.’ 

Her previous calls to divide states by political party earned her accusations of trying to foment a civil war.

In October Greene posted an informal poll to Twitter, posing the question: ‘Should America have a national divorce?’

It netted nearly 85,000 votes, with a majority of 47.7 percent selecting ‘No, stay together.’

But in a testament to today’s political divisions, nearly just as many people — 43 percent — chose ‘Yes, by [Republican] & [Democrat] states.’

The Georgia congresswoman went on a tear earlier on Wednesday, accusing the Democrats in power of running a ‘Communist regime.’

‘Yes our foundation is infested with freedom killing termites, our agencies are running a regime change on our own soil like they’ve done in foreign countries for decades, and the all powerful propaganda machine is serving the regime…but their lies and tyranny are failing them,’ Greene wrote. 

Debate over a vague ‘national divorce’ is a symptom of the hyper-partisan environment that’s reaching nearly every facet of American life, from the economy to medicine to education. 

And according to a CIA adviser who monitors nations in danger of slipping into civil war, that kind of conflict may hit the United States sooner rather than later.

Greene launched an informal Twitter poll in October asking Americans if there should be a ‘national divorce’

Her statements applied to all blue states but Greene targeted the Democrat strongholds of California and New York

”We are closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe,’ said Dr. Barbara Walter, who serves on the Political Instability Task Force, which guides intelligence analysts on countries overseas that might be on the brink of conflict, looking at factors that include undemocratic leanings. 

The University of California San Diego academic, who has studied hotspots like Syria and helps run a blog on political violence, said the U.S. meets several of the telltale signs that are part of a road to insurgency. 

‘No one wants to believe that their beloved democracy is in decline, or headed toward war,’ she writes in her forthcoming book, How Civil Wars Start.

‘If you were an analyst in a foreign country looking at events in America — the same way you’d look at events in Ukraine or the Ivory Coast or Venezuela — you would go down a checklist, assessing each of the conditions that make civil war likely. And what you would find is that the United States, a democracy founded more than two centuries ago, has entered very dangerous territory,’ she writes, according to the Washington Post.

She concludes that the U.S. has gone through the ‘pre-insurgency’ and ‘incipient conflict’ phases – without deciding whether the January 6th Capitol riot constitutes part of the ‘open insurgency’ phase. 

She also labels the U.S. as an ‘anocracy’ – a category between a democracy and an autocracy, after a slide based on factors in its criteria during the four years of the Trump administration – with the U.S. falling from a score of 10 to a score of 5.

That put the nation far behind its traditional peers.

A CIA adviser monitoring countries in danger of slipping into civil war said that the U.S. has gone through the ‘pre-insurgency’ and ‘incipient conflict’ phases – without deciding whether the January 6th Capitol riot constitutes part of the ‘open insurgency’ phase

‘We are no longer the world’s oldest continuous democracy,” according to Walter. “That honor is now held by Switzerland, followed by New Zealand, and then Canada. We are no longer a peer to nations like Canada, Costa Rica, and Japan, which are all rated a +10 on the Polity index.”

Three retired US generals issued a warning of their own on Friday, fearing a potential split in the military might play out in a civil war if there is a coup attempt after 2024.

They pointed to ‘signs of potential turmoil in our armed forces,’ and noted that a ‘disturbing number’ of active-duty members of the military took part in the Capitol riot, accounting for more than 1 in 10 people charged.

Former Army Major Gen. Paul Eaton, former Brigadier Gen. Steven Anderson and former Army Major Gen. Antonio Taguba outlined their concerns in a Washington Post op-ed.

‘The potential for a total breakdown of the chain of command along partisan lines — from the top of the chain to squad level — is significant should another insurrection occur. The idea of rogue units organizing among themselves to support the “rightful” commander in chief cannot be dismissed.’

They added: ”As we approach the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, we – all of us former senior military officials – are increasingly concerned about the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and the potential for lethal chaos inside our military, which would put all Americans at severe risk,’ the generals penned.