Posted on 12/10/2020 4:48:34 AM PST by EyesOfTX
On his radio program yesterday, Rush Limbaugh indicated his belief that our country may be trending towards secession by some states.
From the story at Mediaite:
Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday that the U.S. may be “trending toward secession.”
As Limbaugh talked about liberal cities like New York and San Francisco, he took up a question of whether “we can win the culture.”
“I actually think — and I’ve referenced this, I’ve alluded to this a couple of times because I’ve seen others allude to this — I actually think that we’re trending toward secession,” he said.
“I see more and more people asking what in the world do we have in common with the people who live in, say, New York?” Limbaugh asked.
In the segment, first flagged by Media Matters, he said, “A lot of bloggers have written extensively about how distant and separated and how much more separated our culture is becoming politically and that it can’t go on this way. There cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs. We can’t be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way.”
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Rush is generally right, and he may well be right here. This all ties in with my piece from the past weekend titled “How Does America Recover From This? It Doesn’t.”
Past generations of Americans had plenty in common, the most obvious among those things being that we were all Americans and all but a tiny few felt an undying loyalty to this country. That love of country – taught in our schools, in our churches and promoted by the entertainment and news media industries – bound us together. We were Americans and damn proud of it.
But that has all changed in America today, specifically on the radical political leftwing, which now dominates the Democrat Party and its policy pursuits. As I discussed in that piece, our entire system of government and the viability of our constitutional Republic depends on the premise that the vast majority of those who govern us would be people of good will who love this country and are loyal to it. Sadly, that entire premise has now become extremely suspect in the Democrat Party, the party that dominates states like New York, which Rush referred to in that monologue.
Today’s Democrat Party not only tolerates having an Eric Swalwell among it, Nancy Pelosi assigns him to serve on the House Intelligence Committee, a post from which he could easily share America’s most tightly held national security secrets to his ChiCom honeypot. Today’s Democrat Party not only tolerates having a Dianne Feinstein – who employed a ChiCom spy as her chauffer for 20 years – in its midst, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer assign her to serve as the Party’s senior member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Today’s Democrat Party not only tolerates having anti-Semitic, America hating members like AOC, Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar in its midst, it celebrates them, gives them plum committee assignments and affords them heavy influence in the Party’s agenda.
Today’s Democrat Party not only tolerates having ChiCom sellouts like Joe and Hunter Biden in its midst, it celebrates them, covers up for them and even rigs its presidential nomination for an elderly, declining lifelong circus clown as a reward.
The abject hatred of America and everything it stands far among those on the radical political left is not only glaringly evident in Congress, we can see it every day rioting in the streets and issuing heinous diatribes on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms. We are at a point in this country where one cannot wear a cap expressing a desire for this country to be great again without being physically assaulted on the streets with the full sanction of many local mayors and the entirety of the corrupt national news media. We are at a point in our country where one risks assault by admitting he or she works in the oil industry or goes to church. We are at a point in our country where major city Democrat mayors like Bill De Blasio feel free to repeatedly attack, chastise and discriminate against Jews and Christians.
What do people in Texas or Oklahoma or North Dakota or Louisiana or Alabama have in common with people in New York or California or Seattle or Portland anymore? Not much, and in very large part, not even love of country.
So, when Rush Limbaugh says he thinks we are trending towards secession, he should be taken seriously.
That is all.
Explain?
I’ve been saying this for some time......and been told I was crazy for even suggesting it on this board multiple times.
Peaceful secession would be better than civil war. I for one am quite willing to separate from the communist states and let them go their own way.
So what? It was ENTIRE states that entered into the pact known as the USA. Counties go with the state. If you don’t like it vote with your feet.
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So you would cut-off your own cajoles, why?
When one or two counties run rough shod over a state and turn a red state blue your saying throw the baby out with the bath water?
Pennsylvania only has two blue counties: Pittsburg and Philadelphia. You are going to need those red counties.
A process needs to be started where the state legislature meets and votes to expulse the two bad counties from the state. This would be excepted by the Federal Government and Pennsylvania stays in the union.
States such as New York that have smaller red areas could still break away and form their own state(West New York) or petition to join a neighboring state(Pennsylvania).
In the words of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ :”Take everything and give nothing back!”
Haven’t you been listening to the age-old claim that Blue States subsidize Red States? I think many of them beleive they would leave us in the dust economically.
They think we are the parasites.
ENTIRE states secede. Get it? IF CA secedes then part of that state that wants separation they can revolt, fight, or use political means to exit CA. That is not my problem.
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“The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a ‘rebellion’ is a gross abuse of language.”
“Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.”
—Pres. Davis.
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He lost. We wont. Counties will be expulsed without benefit of statehood.
If there’s succession foreign powers won’t sit it out this time! If you think China in our knickers now wait to see what happens with succession.
Counties are parts of a state. Sorry pal, that is the way it works.
Pffft. China couldn’t cross the 100 miles of ocean to Taiwan...
Agreed. Not secession, but a sort-of deaccession or dismissal of those counties (not entire states—see much of CA or upstate NY) that continue to threaten the US. We have been tolerant of unrelenting insults and hate. It would be generous to let them operate independently.
We are the US and have a great identity and history. We built this great nation. It is ours. Relocate the collections from the Smithsonian out of DC. Dismiss, with the left, the enormous debt accumulated by the left. Open up entrepreneurship in areas outside left-controlled counties to free those businesses. Establish a stock exchange and commodities market outside of leftist counties. We have ports in Texas and San Diego. We have industry. We have infrastructure, We have education. We have the world’s happiest, motivated, friendliest, and most magnetic culture. We are the greatest nation and society in the history of the world. We have us.
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A system of expulsion, ejecting blue counties from the security of the US and the state they reside in. Subject to Federal control they are free to destroy themselves however they wish. But unable to influence Federal or State elections. Sort of a zit that needs squeezing.
They’re all over Africa, northern Italy, etc.
And if they’re invited, which they will be whose going to stop them?
You’re still thinking 19th-20th century force projection.
90% of the area - not 90% of the voting population.
I would love it if New Jersey would take Philadelphia off our hands.
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And maybe gain South Jersey and parts of Maryland.
Counties are parts of a state. Sorry pal, that is the way it works.
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And thus insuring Civil war and your eventual defeat. But hey be a statist.
Oh by the way Virginia is a blue state, even though every county save Richmond declared themselves 2A sanctuaries. So I do believe if you are a red stater you will have to move. (If Tennessee will have you). That is your reasoning.
1. If California succeeds, how long until Mexico sends an invasion force of immigrants?
2. If red counties in blue states want to align with the US, can’t they succeed from the state, if the state can succeed from the country?
3. Will we be allowed to travel in both countries without papers or borders? We can’t build a 2000 mile border fence with Mexico, how are we going to build one with California, New Mexico, New York?
4. Will we be keeping them out or will they be keeping us out?
5. Does this mean I lose my Social Security?
6. Can we ban Google in new Texas?
7. Will businesses be allowed to continue in both countries?
8. Where will the new Hollywood be?
9. Can we force the liberals to get out once we have seperation? i.e. Can we liberate Austin?
“I disagree. Culturally we used to have a great deal in common.”
Okay. Please explain 1776 when a large portion of the population wanted to remain with England and sided with our enemy (England) and again in 1861 when the northern states attacked the southern states both economically and physically. If those two examples are “a shared ethical outlook” then I’m totally confused.
Yes, we have had periods when all of the issues you explained were true, but if you study any history you will plainly see it does not last and there are periods when the opposite is true. We happen to be in one of those periods now!
That I don't disagree with. We are definitely in a period of great differences.
1) Right away but the Federal Border Patrol would still hold sway on that border.
2)Yes, why not. Intact states can eject blue counties, Red regions can form new states or petition a red state to join it. All with Federal approval.
3) No, you will need a visa to pass through these borders.
Most borders will be much smaller as we are dealing with blue counties. (President Trump has built 25% of the 2000 mile Mexican border wall in key areas.)
4)We will be keeping them out. They may want to keep us out but that is their problem.
5)No but it may change the nature of your social security.
6)Yes, Google has been treasonous and as such leaders imprisoned and court control pending breakup due to Anti-Trust violations.
7)Yes but on a supervised basis. None of this in bed like with the PRC.
8)Sure 50/50 Texas/Florida and South Dakota for Northern shooting. Westerns and Hallmark will make a comeback.
9)Expulsion Austin becomes a Commonwealth City State, subject to severe limitations including sending back anyone who is here illegally.
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