re: Rush: "we are on the cusp of civil war"

Honestly it all dates back to The War of Northern Aggression. The issues have changed but the opposing factions have not. The smart move is to complete a formal geopolitical divide between the red states and the blue states. The problem of course for the blue states is their Northeast coast and left coast are hugely divided by a sea of red states. As such it probably makes more sense for California and the rest of the West coast to form their own nation, the NE to form their own leaving the heartland and the South as the conservative faction carrying on with American traditions as defined in the Constitution by our founding fathers.