Posted on 11/17/2012 4:04:39 PM PST by Pleistarchos
The thought of a split of the American Republic is not an easy pill to swallow. We have come to assume that the United States in which most of us were born, raised, learned about in school and from books, movies, patriotic holidays, etc., was began in 1776 and that it would still be around long after we are gone.
I have been torn over this since the mid-90's. Like many people, I had taken it for granted that, as a result of the collapse of the USSR and its client-states, Marxist-inspired college professors would either see the light or be so utterly discredited as to become laughing stocks of the young people who sat in the lecture halls.
What I found during the 90's was that the Western variant of Marxism had the ability to, like a bacterium that had squeaked by courses of a particular antibiotic enough times, develop resistance against what would easily kill it off in the past.
Gone (For the most part) were the calls for the people to seize the means of production. The Cultural Marxism promulgated by Georg Lukaks and Antonio Gramsci then gained ascendancy . The latter was nothing new, it was similarly a more stealthy means by which the people of the West could be softened up for the supposed inevitable onset of Marxism and the corresponding end of sovereign states.....
We were a collection of States before we were a (federalized) country.
If this ever is about to happen i’ll be damn sure to get the heck out of MA as quick as i can (I should anyways) and get my butt down to Texas before they close up the border down there.
I believe that this is a key point. The politicians may not stop but arithmetic will stop it. A lot of people understand cognitively that this debt can't continue but few really understand it, feel it deep down and really believe it, yet. That's because the Social Security checks keep coming, the Medicare payments keep getting paid, the food stamps continue, etc. When they stop or begin to slow at a serious pace, then people will start to get it. How that snowball rolls remains to be seen but it will roll.
What would be better is kick out the libtards and we keep it all, minus a state or three.
Employers who can not allow their workforce to slip below 30 hrs a week, they will make their employee’s become 1099 folks, private contractors. As a private contractor, they will be liable for their own taxes, health insurance, ssi, etc. I think this is where we are headed, and this may be the spark.
Wishful thinking, perhaps.......
Places I could live without: New York City, Boston (okay, all of Mass.), Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, SF & LA. If these cesspools of urban corruption were independent or a part of Canada we could live with the rest of the liberal/socialist states and cities such as Vermont, South Florida, Rhode Island and Minnesota.
I can see the benefits of having a republic 200 years ago. Cross-border laws similar, commerce governed in a standardized manner, plenty of foreign enemies just hundreds of miles away.
But today, what’s the use of a republic? There’s little to be gained by ganging together, in fact, there is more to lose in the way of taxes and regulations.
After tagging Cuba "out" the next stop would be Massachusetts ~
I don't think the Leftwingtards in this country realize the mortal danger they are in from any nation with a technology equal to our own, with political will, to be in close proximity!
Although the NE US objected to it, we ended up allied to France and that ended the Spanish threat when he took Spain's Louisiana Territory, and the Mississippi, and sold it to us!
The current secession talk involves mostly trans Mississippi states ~ and although the NE continues to think there's nothing there worth fighting for, they are as mistaken now as they were then
Some form of breakdown of the country is inevitable now. The most likely progression is secession of Texas as the first event. For reason and analysis, including to answers to objections, see my blog
http://freetexasconstitution.wordpress.com/
Secession is necessary if only for defensive reasons. It is either certainty of collapse by staying in the U.S. or probable economic boom (at least on a relative basis) by Secesssion.
Good point, In my earlier posts on the subject I had noted that this is exactly what would happen. I for one, from New Jersey, would have to relocate, while Progressives from the free nation could move to my former State.
http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-consideration-of-secession-part-i.html
http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-consideration-of-secession-part-ii.html
Interested in taking my bet that Texas will vote blue in a POTUS election before “secession” happens?
I’m willing to wager a Social Security check electronically signed by Baraq Hussein Obama...
The USSR was a bunch of small State before they were forced into being part of the USSR. We have the Southern states that were forced back into the USA. Hate to say, but there are similarities.
My proposal: let's start an expulsion movement instead of a secession movement: expel California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii in the west, and New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and all of New England except New Hampshire and we'd be left with a damn fine country. (I don't know what we'll do with NH there in the northeast; it's a little island of sanity in a deep blue sea of liberal fruit-loopery). There's not one conservative senator among the 26 representing those 13 states, unless I'm mistaken.
We could announce that the constitution of this reset USA would be the existing US constitution (although I'd like to repeal the 17th amendment and strongly rework the ninth and tenth to strengthen limits on the power of the general government). The newly consituted Supreme Court would be charged, in the implementation language, with spending it's first few terms reconsidering the constitutionality of every enactment of the original US since the thirties in light of the newly strengthened ninth and tenth amendments.
The Heartland of this country has always suffered under the bootheels of our bicoastal elite, and been misgoverned by mostly graduates of elite schools in the northeast. Time to cast them away. While we're at it we may also want to make overtures to some of our good neighbors in certain Canadian provinces which have often chafed under roughshod rule by the elites in Ontario and Quebec. (From time to time I've heard rumblings of Canadian separatist movements in the western provinces.) So we could be both expansionist as well as expulsionist.
Imagine a new, "Can-Am" federation stretching from Alaska to Florida - including the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, British Columbia, Alberta, Sasketchawn and Manitoba - and encompassing all the American heartland, the mountain states, old Dixie, the Great Lakes States and Pennsylvania (but not NY). Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces would probably feel compelled to eventually merge with the now-rump remainder of the old US, with which they have more in common than with the rest of Canada in any event.
Anyway, it's fun to move pieces around on the map. Where do I sign on for the revolution?
I as born and raised in the United States ...
unfortunately, this ain’t it
An interesting thought exercise, in any case.
Thank you.
“Anyway, it’s fun to move pieces around on the map.”
My thoughts on the same subject here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2959153/posts?page=51#51
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