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To: Windflier
You're right about there being no point in debating the legality of secession. And, you're right about the meaning of the Declaration of Independence.

However, as I see it, there isn't any meaningful support for secession or revolution. The folks who signed the Declaration pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. They played for keeps. There aren't ten thousand people in this country who are prepared to die over social issues like abortion or homosexual rights, or over economic issues like whether the highest marginal tax rate should be 35% or 39%, Obamacare, the Federal Reserve, etc.

If I were to become so unhappy with the USA that I couldn't take it anymore, I would emigrate rather than just sit here complaining.

Patience. Wait long enough and the pendulum will be swinging the other way.

34 posted on 11/26/2012 4:44:11 PM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food
However, as I see it, there isn't any meaningful support for secession or revolution.

Give it twenty four more months (if that). The inmates are in charge of the nut house, and they're going to take this country down a path like we've never seen. In short order, too, I might add.

The smart folks are already battening down the hatches and preparing for extremely 'interesting times'.

Anything can happen at this point.

36 posted on 11/26/2012 4:48:38 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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