A New York-based left-wing commentator, Kyle Kulinski, is getting a lot of attention online after he went on a passionate rant arguing the U.S. should split into red and blue nations for a century, then check back to see who comes out on top. He is certain it wouldn’t even be a contest.
The video, which popped up on Reddit, shows Kulinski making his case for what people now call a “national divorce.” That’s the idea of the country formally or informally splitting along political lines. It has been tossed around by folks on both the left and right. But instead of offering it as a threat, this guy puts it out there almost like a challenge.
He claims blue states would end up with universal healthcare, free college, better wages, a higher GDP, and stable politics, while red states, as he puts it bluntly, would be a “catastrophe.”
The New York-based media host brings up the old argument about federal tax flows, saying blue states put more money into the federal budget while red states take out more. Kulinski calls out what he sees as hypocrisy: red-state voters railing against government spending but relying on it all the same. “The blue states are subsidizing all your *expletive*,” he says.
The “national divorce” idea isn’t anything new in American politics. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene pushed it into the spotlight in 2023 with her call for red and blue states to break up, which sparked heavy backlash from politicians, including her fellow Republicans.
The idea seems to keep coming up as the country grows more divided.
Reactions Pour In After New York Commentator Floats ‘National Divorce’ Idea
The clip ignited a sharp and divided response online, with the strongest pushback coming from those who viewed the idea as fundamentally anti-American regardless of who was making it.
“This is the most un-American take. We are the UNITED STATES of America. We need to fix our problem, not shatter our country,” one person wrote, setting the tone for a large portion of the reaction.
Others engaged more practically with the logistics. “Any form of secession is going to lead to civil war. Period. No one is willing to give up land, and you’re going to have a ton of different people with a ton of different ideas on how secession should work,” a user commented.
Some reactions leaned into the geopolitical implications. “US breaking up into two nations that hate each other would be a boon for the world,” one person wrote. Others questioned the economic premise entirely. “It won’t work. The country is intertwined economically and can’t run individually,” a user commented.
A few took a more detached view of how the split might actually play out. “The blue states will most likely have open immigration. The reds will just flee to that country when *expletive* gets outta hand,” one person wrote, while another added: “It’s very possible. Any blue family or red family would be deported to their respective parts.”
What makes this particular video stand out is that it’s a left-wing figure flipping the script on what’s usually a conservative talking point. That’s probably why the video is getting so much attention. It takes a concept that has mostly been a right-wing fantasy and throws it back as a challenge from the left, daring conservatives to prove their model works better.
