The more I think about it, your idea to divide the country politically, but not geographically, just wouldn't work. Yesterday I speculated about how nice it would be to have the roads all to myself, but that wouldn't happen. We are not going to have two parallel road systems, one for Democrats and one for Republicans. That would be too expensive and a lot of good land would have to be paved over. Same thing with commerce and trade, they are not going to build another Walmart right next door to the existing one just so we can each have our own store. Another flaw in your plan is that it seems to assume that each or our systems would be ideologically pure. Truth is that neither pure capitalism nor pure socialism has ever existed in the real world on a national scale for very long, and there is probably a reason for that. It appears, then, that we are stuck with each other whether we like it or not. Well, the whole idea was hypothetical right from the start, wasn't it?
"This is a big oversimplification, but do we want to live in a society that has the principles we believe in, or is it more important to live in a society that works well?" - To answer that, I would have to know what you mean by "works well". I think the reason we each have our political preferences in the first place is that we each believe that they are the best way to attain our goals. It's unlikely that we will ever agree on the best means of achieving our goals if we don't have the same goals. Maybe that's what's wrong with this country, everybody wants something different.
3/19/16 - I suppose you have heard about the big uproar that shut down the Trump rally in Chicago. What's your take on that? It didn't seem to hurt Trump locally because he took Cook County. Wiki reports that somebody took a poll afterwards and that 22% of the people said that the incident made them more inclined than ever to vote for Trump, 11% said that it made them less inclined, and 66% said that the incident had no effect on their voting plans. If I didn't know any better, I would say that the anti-Trumpers were actually pro-Trumpers in disguise and knew full well that their actions would help Trump pick up a few more votes, but that would be just paranoid.
I saw on the TV news this evening that some anti-Trumpers briefly blocked off a major highway that people were using to get to a Trump rally down in Arizona, but they ran away before the police arrived to disperse them. What's up with that? Did they think they would actually prevent people from attending the rally and that, if they didn't attend the rally, they wouldn't vote for Trump? Again, maybe they were really pro-Trumpers and their intent was to inconvenience people, thus making them mad at the anti-Trumpers.
As some famous guy once said, "Politics makes strange bedfellows."
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