Putin’s Plot to Get Texas to Secede

politico.com ^ | June 22, 2015 | CASEY MICHEL

[satan]

The new Confederacy will need a foreign ally as did the old Confederacy. Perhaps Mexico would provide support if it were promised California.

[Cobra64]

The US is neither a dictatorship, nor a democracy.

It is a Republic!

Say the pledge of allegiance, paying attention to the words, if you have doubts about that.

Yup. Even Republicans refer to our Republic as "democracy."

[Buckeye McFrog]

Putin just doesn’t seem to understand anything about the world around him.

A product of the Soviet regime and it's paranoid isolationism

[SunkenCiv]

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[Bluewater2015]

That was sure our goal, and our hope for the survival of mankind.

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Sure we all hoped for it, but no one (in the West at least) saw it coming, until the rot really set in around 1988 or so.

[ansel12]

We not only hoped for it, but we spent countless billions, and thousands of lives, millions of lives, to make it happen.

That was sure our goal, and our hope for the survival of mankind. We did what we could to break up that evil empire and free those slave states.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Most interesting.

I don't know the political orientation of the source (doubtless I'll be pummeled by other FReepers enlightening me), but I don't trust the Russians and I wouldn't put this past them.

[DoodleDawg]

I wonder if the military is now corrupted enough by the left that it would actually fire on American citizens.

If Texas left would they still be American citizens?

[MrB]

Ah, yes... standard leftist tactic.
Redefine the terms against your enemies.

[DoodleDawg]

It’s all academic. Texas isn’t going anywhere.

[Texas Fossil]

agree with your statements and logic.

I want no part of dismembering the US. I want the criminals who are intentionally destroying the nation: Charged, Tried, Convicted, Sentenced, Punished according to the Law.

[Bluewater2015]

I want no part of dismembering the US. I want the criminals who are intentionally destroying the nation: Charged, Tried, Convicted, Sentenced, Punished according to the Law.

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That would be great, but’s it’s not practical. Those “criminals” control the legal and political system in DC. Besides, if two regions of a nation cannot get along, is it so bad for them to separate amicably. Maybe “Secularland” and “Flyoverland” could form mutual defense and trade pacts, so the break up wouldn’t be so traumatic to economic or national security. Hope springs eternal.

[central_va]

The idea of secession takes a long to to set it. Like a smoldering fire it smokes and smokes in the back ground. But when the flames appear it spreads quickly and wildly. It becomes a passion. The idea of freedom does that.

FedGov™ is a construct of the USC. IT is pathetic thing with no real power except the power over mind, a con job. A committee of 535 losers dictate over the USA 300+ million.

The standing army would melt away in a hot civil war scenario replaced by volunteers of each faction.

[DoodleDawg]

The standing army would melt away in a hot civil war scenario replaced by volunteers of each faction.

Volunteers from each faction did pretty wekk the last time I believe.

[central_va]

The Lincoln debacle has wizened up the USA. Nobody today but extremist fanatics like you would take up arms against a seceding state(states). You are in a tiny minority. A throwback.

[DoodleDawg]

You are in a tiny minority. A throwback.

Says the man who honestly thinks a state will secede.

[central_va]

IS there any thing in today’s political environment that leads you to believe that the USA will remain whole in the foreseeable future? It is splitting at the seems.