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E.J. Dionne Forgets that America Is a Constitutional Republic
Townhall.com ^ | March 31, 2012 | Daniel Mitchell

Posted on 03/31/2012 6:31:44 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: loveliberty2
First of all, thanks for another great post

Liberals may "believe" the "democracy," but when they do, they reveal their ignorance of the explicit explanations provided by America's founding generation and those who framed the Constitution.

The ignorance is evident 24/7/365

21 posted on 03/31/2012 1:12:44 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: sono; kjo; Kaslin
Edwards was right about one thing - there Are two Americas - the one for the EJ Dionne’s of the world and the one for those who believe in the Founders’ Constitution.

Then let's do it literally. Throw New England and downstate New York (about 30,000,000 people, 10% of the whole who make the other 90% miserable) out of the Union and force liberals in other parts of the country to leave for New England or Canada. The Marxists have captured half of America's voters with their bullshine and their puppet candidates -- now it's time for them to leave, and take their spoil with them.

Boot them out. All of them. Expelling the offending States, and introducing the Ostracon (ostracism) to expel the rest, will give us social peace and cohesion we deserve, and confine liberaldom to the hellhole it deserves.

22 posted on 03/31/2012 2:12:28 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: RobbyS

Where California goes the nation soon follows.


23 posted on 03/31/2012 7:35:24 PM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: hdbc

>>>There are two Americas, and ultimately I believe we may soon reach a point where secession is the only option. Let the libtards live in their socialist utopia and leave the rest of us to live as the founders envisioned. Far fetched? I don’t see how this country can continue with two totally different philosophies pulling in opposite directions.<<<

Yep, and here’s how it might go. The states might finally look at the contract signed with the federal government and see that it is no longer a representative republic. In that case, the union of the states is void. Each state signed on with the understanding that they’d be part of a republic, with limited powers, as outlined in the Constitution.

It’s the reverse of the Civil War. In this instance, the federal government was seceeded from the states. Once this little snowball starts rolling down the hill, it’s hard to imagine where it would go, but I would hope that the split would be amiable, as it was with the Czechs and the Slovaks.

However, I’m with you on this one. A house divided cannot stand. God help us.


24 posted on 04/01/2012 10:59:47 AM PDT by redpoll
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To: lentulusgracchus
There are far too many conservatives and libertarians in New England and in upstate New York to simply kick them out of the union. My state (NH) is dominated by Republicans in elected office and is currently more conservative than either North Carolina or Colorado (to name but two examples), at least if you consider party/ideology self-identification numbers.

If the issues between us were neatly geographical, I think we'd be further along the road to secession than we are. There are two fundamentally opposed visions of America at present, and only one can survive in a single nation. But the division does not appear as a line on a map, but in clusters and dots. Kind of like Bosnia. That's encouraging, isn't it?

25 posted on 04/01/2012 11:14:01 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: RipSawyer

Which is what Texas is trying to avoid. My fear is that as more Californians come to Texas, they will want to bring their political views with them. Travis has always been a liberal county, but now more so because of the Californians who have moved in.


26 posted on 04/01/2012 1:28:45 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Upstate New York. ought to secede from NYC etc.. That was they could draw business to them with lower taxes.


27 posted on 04/01/2012 1:32:04 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: andy58-in-nh
There are far too many conservatives and libertarians in New England and in upstate New York to simply kick them out of the union.

I would, I've pointed out elsewhere, partition New York at the Croton Reservoir and the middle of the Hudson channel -- leaving Chappaqua and Westchester with the Bronx and Long Island with the New Englanders, and keeping Staten Island and the Jersey Shore in the Union (and Sandy Hook, and Bedloe's and Ellis Islands -- the Socialists would get Ruyker's).

Egregious liberal exarchates in Upstate New York like Albany and Ithaca, City of Evil, would be mass-deported to the state line and driven across into Connecticut with whips and branding irons. Berkeley and Sausalito and The Castro would share their fate.

28 posted on 04/02/2012 6:45:06 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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