We Are Not One Country Anymore And We Need to Stop Pretending

Severe flooding is happening right now in Washington State, and it’s barely being covered.

That silence is not accidental.

It reflects a media ecosystem that no longer serves the public evenly, no longer prioritizes human impact over political narrative, and no longer treats all states as equally worthy of attention. Disaster coverage now depends on who is affected and whether their suffering fits a preferred storyline. The news and media is fascist state owned!

This is what it looks like when a country fractures, not with one dramatic event, but with neglect, selective outrage, and silence.

We have not been a truly united set of states for a long time. We are a collection of regions with fundamentally different values, realities, and futures, pretending cohesion out of habit rather than truth.

I am exhausted by being politically tethered to states that repeatedly vote for leaders who undermine bodily autonomy, education, environmental protection, and democratic norms then export the consequences nationwide. I am tired of being told that regression must be tolerated in the name of “unity,” while progress is endlessly stalled to appease those committed to moving backward.

This is not a disagreement over tax rates or policy nuance. This is a moral and cultural divide.

One side is trying to build a future that acknowledges climate reality, protects human dignity, and adapts to the world as it is. The other is anchored to grievance, hierarchy, and myth using fear to justify control and calling it tradition. Full of pedophiles and those same states our turning the age for legal marriage to 14! These same states are lowering the age to legal work!

And the cost of pretending these visions are compatible is becoming unbearable.

What’s happening now, environmental crises ignored, democratic institutions strained, entire regions governed as ideological experiments, only reinforces what many of us already know: We are living under a false unity.

📍I don’t want performative patriotism anymore.

📍I don’t want forced allegiance to a system that no longer functions as mutual care.

📍I don’t want my future dictated by states that consistently reject shared responsibility while demanding shared power.

If separation, political, economic, or regional, is what it takes for people to live under governments that actually reflect their values and protect their communities, then we need to be honest enough to discuss it.

Not as hatred.

Not as revenge.

But as reality.

What’s happening in Washington right now isn’t just a weather event.

It’s a signal. And I’m done pretending not to hear it.