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SCENE:\u00a0 \u00a0Mitch BERG is checking his oil.\u00a0 \u00a0As he does so, Avery LIBRELLE pedals a “Nice Ride” bike up the sidewalk, obscured from BERG’s view by the hood of the car.\u00a0 LIBRELLE pedals over to BERG.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: Merg!\u00a0 \u00a0 What’s all this secession talk?<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 There are those who think that as a result of a couple of generations of geographic sorting, the nation’s differences are so great it’s time for an amicable divorce.\u00a0 Let Blue America and Red America split up and try their luck as sovereign, ideally friendly, countries.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 \u00a0Hah!\u00a0 That’s treason!\u00a0 Treason<\/em>, I say!\u00a0 We are one nation under Goddess<\/em>, and the last time the traitors tried to leave the union the rest of us beat them back into line!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0So there should always be one nation.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Absolutely.<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0One set of federal laws.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 \u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0So you support cracking down on “sanctuary cities” that flout federal law for their own ideological reasons?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 [Visibly flinching]<\/em> Racist!\u00a0 Traitor!\u00a0 \u00a0Badthink!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 \u00a0Hey – it’s the middle of February.\u00a0 Those Nice Ride bikes were all taken off the road in November.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Oh, it’s on my sister’s credit card, so it’s free.<\/p>\n

And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCENE:\u00a0 \u00a0Mitch BERG is checking his oil.\u00a0 \u00a0As he does so, Avery LIBRELLE pedals a “Nice Ride” bike up the sidewalk, obscured from BERG’s view by the hood of the car.\u00a0 LIBRELLE pedals over to BERG.\u00a0 LIBRELLE: Merg!\u00a0 \u00a0 What’s all this secession talk? BERG:\u00a0 There are those who think that as a result of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-70065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-pc","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70164,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70065\/revisions\/70164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}