Just Suppose . . .
I know that Democrats nor Republicans shiver at the prospect of having to govern their own nation, apart from their enemies in the other party; but just suppose that a force outside our control compels us to formally divide the dis-United States, so that two new independent nations emerge, who have the existential responsibility of governing themselves. They can no longer excuse their mistakes by blaming the other party, because the other party no longer plays a part in their affairs.
I realize that hostile rhetoric and hate-speech abound in our wonderful country, and that paranoia and mistrust dominate the American scene; but just suppose that the Staff of Moses returns to part the U.S. into new countries, I doubt that even the most paranoid Republican or Democrat wants the onus of having to go it alone. Rather than govern alone, each would rather dominate the affairs of the other, scapegoating each other to death.
Finishing off a formal division will resemble the competitors in a tug-of-war. The new nations will need time to gather themselves up and dust themselves off. Ideally, neither is victorious, because the rope snaps in the middle, so that both sides fall down, away from each other. Each will have to start thinking of how to further its own objectives.
I have no doubt the Republicans have a clear advantage at the outset, because they can fall back on established foundational documents like the U.S. Constitution, to give the new nation its functional parameters, because the constitutional clauses limit the ability of citizens and the government itself to take advantage of, or to cause harm to others.
In a sense, constitutional government is counter-intuitive because it restricts the primordial human urge to conquer and corral its environment. Democracy, on the other hand, promotes this primordial urge, because citizens can simply vote into effect policies that enhance the majority's position over the minority.
The unwillingness of the Left to seek independence from the Right is, for me, more problematic, for its unwillingness to create an independent life. Just suppose that something outside our control has made a decision about our status and done the dividing for us, so that we become two independent nations. Now the Democrats have to make decisions about their future, with no opposition from the Right to deter them.
How will they go forward? Does the Left have a viable economic model that enables it to support itself? Does it have a clear sense of the implications of an individual's civil rights? The structure of the Democrat Party can count on a measure of amorphous stability, not without risks. What does a "Left", "Progressive", or "Liberal" administration entail, as far as its ability to produce harmonious policy-making? Unlike the status quo, where leftist policies remain mostly theoretical, what will a left-wing "Democracy" offer its citizen?
The Left says that it represents the poor, disenfranchised, and rejected, but if the dis-United States divide, can it count on all those disenfranchised people remaining with them? It should not assume as much. Realistically speaking, most poor people do not care two hoots about equality or diversity. They really want money and power, qualities that they have long associated with Capitalism. Only the capitalists can sell those concepts so convincingly.
Facebook sites like "Democratic Socialism, Now!" may complain about the "1% who hoard all the wealth and power". and state that "they are quite literally sociopaths," but how will they govern as a stand-alone country, if the rod of Moses takes the "Sociopaths" out of their national equation?
Another FB poster, "The "Ministry of Wibble", quotes the writer John Fugelsang "Wait till you hear about Fascists pretending to be Christian." Why can't these groups use their collective know-how to create ther own country and govern themselves, leaving Fascists and Christians out of the equation. Must their enemies remain in-house, to serve as scapegoats, or whatever?
With nationhood, the Left would have to deal with enemies who are not Republicans or Christians. They would have to confront the various shades of enmity in other people, putting them in prison if necessary, or deporting them elsewhere. They would have to mess with the legal questions that arise from the cases of Assange and Manning betraying state secrets—if the secrets are their own nation's secrets. Finally, they would have to define themselves in specific terms by laying down the concrete parameters of their own government, and maintain day-to-day policy-making.
As crypto-marxists, accepting of the reality of "ownership" would not appeal to them.