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.
It is as simple as that.
“ I hope it is your kin that die in a needless war when a peaceful separation is possible.”
Coulda been peaceful the last time, too. Needless? Yes!
Analyses and wargaming have it that Chinese troops would be seen to enter and occupy the U.S. coastal states very soon after any such secession. This would pacing the interior states in enormous and probably irretrievable peril. So there’s that.
place (not pacing)
The sooner we start with it (session)- the sooner we avoid a Second Civil War! I’ve been telling friends and family this and up until last month they thought I was crazy.....now not so much :(
“I’m for cutting the blue states loose.”
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.
the heck?
OH BS. Quit it. This is what you are really saying: I am condemned to live a hopeless hapless life in a leftist coast to coast tyrannical empire because maybe, one day 100 years from now, the ChiComs are going to invade? Really. What Utter poppycock. The ChiComs would have hard time invading the tiny island of Taiwan!!!
Heck yeah Jersey boy.
It’s more like California needs to go it’s own way as they don’t want to be American anymore and want to drag everyone else with them.
#CALEXIT #CALGONE. I am good with that.
Violence? Yes. Secession? No.
Lincoln went nuclear to preserve the country, and though it is tragic and infuriating that we have gotten to this point, I believe that Trump should also act to preserve the country if the SCOTUS fails or refuses to act to stop this theft. I believe that his speech was a warning to the Court that it needs to do its job or worse was coming.
Secession? Yes. Violence? No.
Lincoln turned the war into a war against slavery in 1863. The biggest bait and switch in US history.
Hell yes....there is no coexistence with those sobs...
Save what “purple” states that can be saved.
Otherwise,there are quite a few “rural” states that are at the mercy of one or two cities within that state.
Those should not be considered the enemy.
The choice is to resign ourselves to live in a tyrannical mob ruled coast to coast leftist empire or split up the USA into manageable parts. Some free some not so much.
90% of PA is rural and or small towns...and we like it that way.
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