[darrellmaurina]

Here’s the New Republic article: https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america

Here’s Pat Buchanan’s article: https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2017/02/24/is-secession-a-solution-to-cultural-war-n2289942

And here’s an interesting article in the liberal Nation arguing that the New Republic liberal author is wrong: https://www.thenation.com/article/blue-state-secession-is-dumb-and-cruel/

[cradle of freedom]

The Democrats are lying as usual.

[Azeem]

The left will use “States rights” to get what they want and then ignore them when they return to power on the National level. U.S. leftists are Fascists. Everything is expendable (human lives, inalienable rights, God) when it comes to their acquisition of power.

[sport]

Bullshit! Conservatives should be wary of anything a Liberal does, or “discovers”. In anything a Liberal does, or discovers”, there is always a hook in it for Conservatives.

[spintreebob]

what a major change this is for people on the liberal side of the spectrum

I hope no FReepers get sucked into this absurdity. The LEFT is very much for states rights. It is the Constitution that says rights come from GOD/natural law and only belong to individual humans.

Governments have Powers. Governments have the power to coerce. Governments have that power because individuals allow their rights to be abridged.

That governments have rights is very much a leftist, big government idea. We fought a civil war over this concept

One side said government had the power to enforce the slavery of the individual and defined that as a right of government. The other side, the Constitutional side, said government does not have any rights and certainly does not have the right, and should not have the power, to coerce slavery on anyone.

The right of government to coerce is very much a leftist, big government concept.

[Jacquerie]

When the Progs next get in power, they won’t forget why they lost.