Disunion
If we are to free ourselves from subservience to ignorance and cruelty, it will not be through the new civil war that the Silicon Sovereigns sometimes imagine, the hordes of brown-hued rioters spreading out from ruined cities to loot their Fatherland. We will not have a second Gettysburg; armies don't work like that anymore.
What it will be—what it will have to be—is a notionally amicable separation in which a notional Union is preserved for old time’s sake, while we keep ourselves separate and avoid meeting, talking, or having anything to do with the others.
That’s already well advanced. When I was a kid, I knew Republicans. Today, I believe I know one actual Republican, a guy who runs my fantasy baseball league. I am acquainted with two or three more, kids I knew at school, a college classmate who got a little but famous, a second cousin once removed who has a Facebook habit. There was a Republican in hypertext research, back in the 90s, but I haven’t heard from him in decades.
But that’s not enough, not when the Red States are sending ICE to shoot people in the face for fun. We need a restraining order.