Posted on 10/03/2010 12:21:07 PM PDT by Ronbo1948
n my youth there was a popular song entitled: “Save Your Confederate Money, Boys… the South Is Gonna Rise Again!”
I began thinking about it as I watched a group of talking heads discussing the future of America, as a single entity comprised of 50 states. The consensus was -- America will not survive as a 50-state nation. It is a conclusion, which I, unhappily, arrived at years ago.
I am convinced we Americans are being lied to by our government. I am also convinced our economy is on the verge of collapse. Maybe it is just my natural paranoia, but I simply don’t see the “silver lining” inside the dark clouds hanging low over Wall Street and other financial centers in America. I think we are in for a total collapse of our economic system.
What then?
Well, we start over. I mean, literally, we START OVER.
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I began thinking about it as I watched a group of talking heads discussing the future of America, as a single entity comprised of 50 states. The consensus was — America will not survive as a 50-state nation. It is a conclusion, which I, unhappily, arrived at years ago.
I am convinced we Americans are being lied to by our government. I am also convinced our economy is on the verge of collapse. Maybe it is just my natural paranoia, but I simply don’t see the “silver lining” inside the dark clouds hanging low over Wall Street and other financial centers in America. I think we are in for a total collapse of our economic system.
What then?
Well, we start over. I mean, literally, we START OVER.
Stand back, mentally, and take an objective look at the country we call the UNITED States of America. Can we really say we are UNITED? I mean, REALLY? If we are truthful we have to admit the union has been strained since its inception. Sure, we were united against the British during The Revolution… and several times since. But that lasted only until around 1840. Things went downhill rapidly in the 1840’s and 1850’s. By the spring of 1861 we are at war, internally, with each other. It was the most vicious war Americans have ever fought. United peoples don’t fight each other; certainly not the way Americans did in the War Between the States.
After four years of the bloodiest war this continent has ever seen, my southern ancestors were forced back into “The UNION” at the point of a bayonet – a bayonet, which was wielded by Federal Government very unlike the federal government the colonies/states created to act as their agent. At that moment — power slipped from the hands of the people into the hands of the government and Americans have never been able to reacquire it, or rescue it, from the grasping fist of that government – a government many now say has gone rogue.
There is an old expression I have heard all my life. It says: “When one door closes, another door opens.” If that is the case, then we Americans may have a chance, and fairly soon, to set aright much that has been wrong with our country since the middle of the 19th century.
The State Sovereignty Movement has been underway for many months now and the last report I saw had the figure at close to two-dozen states already involved, to one degree or another. That is close to HALF the states! For more on the State Sovereignty Movement go HERE.
No, I don’t think there will be another civil war in America. I think we learned our lesson from the last one. I have come to believe that, when the time comes, we will simply agree to separate. I’m not sure, geographically, how that will play out. But, it will not, necessarily, be a north/south split. Some think the northeastern states will most likely join with Canada. Frankly, I am not so sure. I see the northeastern states becoming the country of “New England.” a socialist nation.
To say that the Old Confederacy will re-emerge, is a bit of a stretch. Although, there is at least one group, I am aware of, that would certainly like to see that. But we are a different people than our confederate ancestors. Having said that, I DO believe, however, that many of the contiguous southern states will make an attempt at forming a country of their own.
Texas will, most likely, revert back to a republic. I’d have to guess that the mid-western states, where the labor unions have such a death grip, would form some sort of union as a socialist confederation of some sort. The plains states and the mountain states, well, I have no idea what they will do, but I do see them forming a country of their own – a republic of some sort.
The states of the west coast will, no doubt, become a socialist/Marxist nation more closely allied with Red China than with it’s former sister states.
Taking a closer look at the southern tier of states I can see them adopting the original US Constitution and making an effort to revive the original country, with the original government, as the founders of the US had intended (as they made clear so many times in the Federalist Papers).
So, there is the possibility what we now refer to, as the USA will become 4 or even 5 different countries. Which of the new nations will blossom and thrive? My money will be on the southern states… if they heed the mistakes of their forbearers and make every effort not to make those mistakes again.
The important thing is to be able to live peaceably with each other on this continent. That will be no mean task, for when the socialist states begin to fail; there will be a huge migration of their citizens to the southern states. That will create immense friction between the states.
This is not an easy thing to contemplate. It is, most assuredly, unpleasant to talk about. But each of us needs to evaluate our principles and determine our own paths into the future.
Obama told us plainly, during his campaign for President, that he intended to “fundamentally” change America. If he has not accomplished anything else, he has certainly accomplished that.
Sounds good to me!
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This is exactly why I have been a member of The League Of The South, a seccessionist organization, since 1994.
I not sure there is any hope left for the USA.
I think it’s fair to say, “controversial” - but secession of 24 or 25 Southern and Western states is something that could happen if the economy collapses.
Also, a Second U.S. Civil War would be possible.
The fact is that we are headed into a “Perfect Storm” that may sink this country.
I wrote an online fictional novel entitled “The White Rose” in which 25 states secede from the Union starting with Florida due to an Islamic terrorist attack in Orlando that leaves over 6,000 Americans dead...Florida goes ape for secession when the fictional president takes the side of the Muslims and refuses to avenge the deaths of the Floridians.
Yeah, that “fictional president” sounds awfully familiar...can’t put my finger on it though...;-)
Yawn - not exactly original.
The Japanese are waaay ahead of you.
http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/American_Empire
and
This lists the ‘new’ world.
http://www.serenadawn.com/GITS-The%20World.htm
THis was triggered by WWIII, a nuke exchnage that kiled a lot of folks, to say the least. The Manga crowd have a lot of imagination, and some of what they point to exists today.
What fun, eh?
No, I don’t see it. In fact, the march yesterday proved it. You didn’t see “blue” states swarming the mall, you saw only hired union thugs and the socialist fringe. You saw the AFP video right here proving it.
Blue states are legacy states where people vote Dem because their parents and grandparents did. You see blue states because of the absolute failure of the Republican Party to evangalize conservative values.
People in blue states go in the military, work hard, and are patriotic just like people in red states.
If you talk to people, anywhere, you find traditional values. They just have been indoctrinated to believe that the Democratic Party represents them, not the fringe.
I don’t hold with anyone who would break up America. They are in the same class as Code Pink and the socialists. They have no place on a conservative forum as they hate America just as much as Howard Dean and Obama.
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I also see the US braking up into 4 to 7 pieces with Texas being the key and being courted by 2 coalitions.
New England states - failed banana republic with no natural resources
Pacific Coast states - pinko commie wasteland with no water or energy
Rust Belt states - failed socialist welfare state
Old South (minus Texas)- Reborn Republic
Bread Basket States - Reborn Republic
And Then you have the wild cards:
Hawaii - which I think would become it's own country.
Alaska - Will go where Texas goes most likely.
Texas - The key to everything
So why do I think Texas is the key to everything? because Texas has three key things, positioning in between the Bread Basket and the South, a coast line, and oil.
Texas would at first lean towards joining the South, but will be courted heavily by the bread basket states because of its coast line and oil and because of their reluctance to be land locked or ally with the rust belt states. But that isn't why Texas is the key, Texas is the key to a future new super power because it could link the south and breadbasket states along with Alaska together into a new super power. All other scenarios result in mediocre or failed nation states.
If you are asking if I care more for my freedom, economic as well as civil, than for the construct called the Union, then put me down in the freedom column. Right now people like you, Union uber alles types, are the biggest threat to my freedom than any Muslim, Marxist or terrorist. Puts you in good company.
I know you hate America. You’ve made that abundantly clear in the past.
No, you will be no more successful tearing off a piece than the scum at the march.
Not even laughing at you.....
pitying you.
We see thru a glass darkly and nothing is inevitable.
The scum at the march want to enslave all of us, all 50 states. With your help they might be successful. Tell me, how tasty is the bottom of a federal boot?
Tell me, Irish hypocrite, if the old South was to gain her sovereignty and created a limited week Federal govt and actually followed the original intent of the USC, and also outlawed welfare, would you want to live there?
Like that would ever happen even if they did secede.
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