Posted on 06/02/2021 8:25:38 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
In September, I published a book called The Stakes. It was billed as a “current events” or election-year title. The election is behind us and the candidate I recommended is no longer president. But the analysis that led me to the recommendation is very much still “current.”
To recap briefly (but read the whole thing!), the book explains how every prominent and powerful American institution, including the federal government, has been taken over by a hostile elite who use their vast powers to attack, despoil, and insult about half the nation. In the sixth chapter (excerpted here), I outline what I think America will look like if the present ruling class refuses to moderate, cannot be forced to share power, and has the wherewithal to keep its regime going. In the seventh chapter, I sketch several possibilities—from secession to Caesarism to collapse—that might result if it turns out that our overlords are a lot less competent than they think. And in the final chapter (excerpted here), I offer policy and other ideas that might enable America to avoid those fates.
That chapter (from which this essay is adapted) culminated with a proposal now being talked about widely, namely, to allow counties, cities, and towns unhappy with their current state government to join another. This would be a practical, and practicable, way to ease Blue and Red Americans’ present discontent and exasperation with each other.
There are precedents. The counties that became Maine split from Massachusetts in 1820, and—more famously—those that became West Virginia left Virginia during the Civil War. Fittingly, when I wrote the chapter, West Virginia had generously offered to welcome western Virginia counties unhappy with rule from newly, aggressively Blue Richmond. Today, a year later, West Virginia’s governor says the offer still stands....
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Only 1 thing needs to be done: Kill the Federal Reserve and return our fake, printed, fiat currency to a Gold/Silver backed currency
Printed, devalued money and the massive debt it entails always supports governments and its cronies. In our case, this wave of printed, centrally-issued money supports the social-engineering and political spending of the DC empire
Get rid of that, and limited, Constitutional government will return.
Colorado will have to figure out a way of allowing the sane portions of the state to withdraw and fully isolate the idiots in Denver/Boulder/Aspen. Those three collections of goons can join Mexifornia and enjoy the suck.
“States” are of no importance. Alas, Americans aren’t interested in this “constitution” thingy. They want to move to where there are good jobs and nice neighborhoods and schools, then vote just the way they did when they destroyed their last jobs and neighborhoods and schools. For additional jollies they shame the people who built the neighborhoods and created the jobs they seek. When they have destroyed their nests, i.e., places like “Virginia,” they simply move on, (generally Southward,) and the cycle starts again, as with locusts, ebola, or any other disease that destroys its hosts.
We are already seeing a Cold Civil War where states are refusing to follow Bidens Executive Orders, creating Second Amendment sanctuaries and soon refusing illegal immigrants. I could see this resistance expand to other areas. The Biden Administration has few options. Judicial review could extend beyond the next election. Federal agents could be simply escorted to the state border or potentially face an armed standoff. Sending federal troops is not a real option. I look for more resistance by states.
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