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.
“They got a eat, we got the wheat.”
The fight would be over resources: who controls the wealth.
Also since our currency is only backed by the reputation of the U.S., it may become nearly worthless.
You will see many Blue states loose territory wishing to secede to reed states. California, Oregon, and Washington will loose land east of I-95 to Idaho.
The 1st civil war was over states rights and slavery. The 2nd will be over states rights and tyranny. The result will be like our revolution, liberty.
It’s winter. I say Louisiana should shut down every pipeline from the Gulf to the North; no winter heating fuel for them!!
liberals don’t obey rules,
If they would just annex the diseased counties onto Washington DC, Maryland would be the Free State, again, instead of the Freak State.
The states are the political entities that entered into the pact known as the USA. Complicating things like you suggest would lead to needless war and bloodshed.
The purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect liars and thieves to public office so that they have access to the public treasuries in order to rob the Taxpayers.
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I’m all for the abolishment of the party of slavery, secession, civil war and the Klu Klux Klan. Treat them the way we treat the Nazis.
A divorce would be the best gift ever for both sides.
This could not happen soon enough either.
It’s like Al Qaeda/ISIS/Communism vs. Freedom. You cannot talk these religious leftists into compromise.
“Then counties should be allowed to succeed from the succeeding states.”
Retract your /s tag because what you said could be close to the truth. Yes, there are some solidly blue states...and those could be cut loose. But many states have their little blue enclaves around the large cities...but lean decidedly Right in the majority of the counties. Just segregate the blue counties/cities with border crossings. In a state that went for Trump (NC), I’d gladly move out of my blue county into a nearby red county...and stand watch at the blue/red county line as a crossing guard.
(Believe it or not...we’re now actively looking to sell our home in “Blueville” and move to a red county...one that voted Trump 70%+.)
Very astute. I identify those "same group of people" as the Northeast power brokers who want to control Washington DC for their own financial and political ends.
And yes, they are still running the Deep State Swamp today.
The states are the political entities that entered into the pact known as the USA. Complicating things like you suggest would lead to needless war and bloodshed.
I think I want this. Problem is going to be Social Security. That is the poison pill of secession.
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Replace them with 401k type plans that force all Americans to invest in America. The plans would be mandatory with a sizeable contribution from the employers that increases with age and seniority. The money would be held in Trusts that would move the investment with the Americans career.
As for investment engines wall street would be part of it, but government infrastructure projects would also be part of it.
Slavery was legal in the United States before, during and after the Civil War. The fight was not over slavery, the fight was over whether Washington DC would control the economics of the South, or whether the Southern states would control it themselves.
As a matter of fact, Washington DC offered them the "Corwin Amendment" which was a clear protection for continued slavery, but they had to remain in the Union to get the Corwin Amendment.
So the powers that were in Washington DC at the time, were perfectly willing to keep slavery so long as they kept control of the Southern economic production. (The South produced 3/4ths of all Federal revenue at the time.)
So it was over States Rights and Tyranny back then too.
“I beleive what the author is suggesting is a willing dissolution by both sides.”
There’d be no “willing dissolution”. Asking the Democrats to agree to a dissolution would be like asking a fat, blood-engorged tick to detach from & jump off of a perfectly healthy dog. Like the tick, the Democrats would fight tooth and nail to hang on to the “living host”.
Absolutely it is. If you live in blue state then move your butt out of there.
The blue states would love for the red states to leave the union. Then they would be free to create “utopia”.
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