Posted on 02/21/2019 2:56:47 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
Something from a story I am writing
When California seceded, Washington, Oregon quickly followed declaring that their new union to be the Peoples’ Republic of America. The New England states, Michigan, Minnesota , Illinois, and Pennsylvania followed suit and joined the PRA, as did New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. Parts of California split and denounced the secession and formed a new state called Jefferson and applied for statehood in the old USA. Eastern Washington and most of Oregon also left the PRA and the rural parts of Minnesota, Illinois and Pennsylvania divorced themselves from the left wing lunacy of Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Chicago.
The remaining states in the US called for a Convention of States and made several very important changes to the Constitution. Among them was a repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments, dissolving the income tax and returning selection of senators to the state legislatures, term limits for representatives and senators, the ability of the states to overrule a Supreme Court decision and federal laws, the elimination of government regulations imposed by federal agencies and specifically prohibiting Congress from creating agencies, bureaus, departments, etc, and giving them power to create rules with the weight of law. Also was a clarification of the “health and welfare clause” that prohibited giving public assistance to able bodied and able minded people except on a short term basis. Along with it a narrowing of the “interstate commerce clause”, which had long been used as an excuse for thousands of federal regulations and laws. The 2nd Amendment was changed to read, “Every free person, being a necessary member of the militia, shall not be debarred from the right to keep and bear arms suitable for use in the militia”.
A form of Social Security was kept but was ended for persons under 50 with whatever they had contributed going to an IRA. Everyone older was given the options of a payout to an IRA or to keep their existing benefits. Once the movement to deport illegal aliens from the United States began, the PRA immediately began their predictable cries of racism. The United States, or the Free States, as they preferred to be called, offered to send them to the PRA, but the PRA didn’t take them up on the offer.
But most important was the Life Amendment which stated that unborn children were legal persons and had full protection under the Constitution. The sole exception for abortion was if the mother’s life was at immediate risk because of the pregnancy.
Recognizing the problem of a declining birthrate in the West, the Free States offered incentives such as government subsidies for housing and education and food for families with four or more children. On the other hand, the PRA had gone the opposite direction, forming was essentially a totalitarian socialist state. The first thing to go was the right to keep and bear arms. The few law-abiding gun owners in the PRA either turned their guns in, moved away, or hid them.
Once the population was disarmed, all the other freedoms fell, too. Anything determined to be “hate speech” was punishable by heavy fines and mandatory “re-education”. The government openly censored websites that were reported to be intolerant. Any church or private school that spoke out against homosexuality or Islam or taught any other politically incorrect topic was closed down. Calling a person by something other than their “preferred pronoun” was considered a hate crime. Any church or private citizen ir company that spoke out against homosexuality or Islam or taught against any other politically incorrect topic was closed down. Virtually all Christian churches and schools were shut down.
The 4th Amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure was eliminated and the state could inspect your home or business at any time for any reason. Illegal aliens were given instant citizenship and the right to vote. Many of the new PRA citizens were uneducated and unskilled and immediately applied for public assistance.
Free college education and free health care was guaranteed in the PRA as well as free money for anyone unable or unwilling to work. This caused resentment among the ones who did work and as a result production and quality plummeted. Recreational drugs were legalized n the PRA, which turned out to be a blessing to the Free States, drawing in drug addicts from all over the continent. Sadly, the right to abortion paid by the government up until birth was included in the guaranteed health care portion of their constitution. This quickly degenerated into infanticide of “undesirable” children born with birth defects and euthanizing the elderly with dementia and other incurable diseases.
Taxes went up to pay for all the ‘free stuff” and businesses and the wealthy fled. To make up for the revenue loss, taxes were raised even more which in turn caused more businesses and people to leave. Within three years inflation was in the triple digits. Laws were enacted that prevented people emigrating from the PRA from removing more than $5000 in assets but there were ways around that. Houses and bank accounts of emigrants became property of the state, as did anything of substantial value. Still, people were eager to abandon the PRA and their mortgages. Mortgage holders folded under the weight of defaulted loans and the homes were made into public housing for the instant citizens. Decent neighborhoods became third world almost overnight. The same people who had publicly opposed the wall at the southern border proceeded to build walls along the PRA’s borders. But this time the barbed wire and guns were facing inward.
The PRA became a cesspool of high unemployment and crime, higher taxes, and the standard of living plummeted. The only people left were idealists who believed that socialism could work if only the “right people” were in charge, the sick and dying, the elderly too set in their ways to move, the poor, and the stubborn. Rob had been one of the latter, refusing to admit he was witnessing the disintegration of a culture and a country.
PRA = Peoples Republic of . . . Anarchy? Anomie? Alienation? Absurdity?
Very well written.
But is this how CWII starts? I don’t think so. I don’t think there will be a clear division of the states as there was in the first Civil War.
It’ll be urban vs. rural. A type of open guerilla warfare in the cities like Detroit, Camden, Memphis, St. Louis (see a pattern here?), Portland and places like these.
The bloodshed will be over quick. In less than 3 months. But the economic fallout will cripple America for 20 years or more.
Read Travis McGee for credible possibles. One of my favorite writings.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2926391/posts
Not a CWII story.
But thanks.
So far it sounds realistic. What happens to New York?
Not a CWII story.
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No? The third word of your story indicates it is.
Secession is a guaranteed Civil War provocation.
None of those would ever be chosen by such a country. They are all too negative. Never mind what such a country would become. You need a name that sounds appealing. Politically correct. One that obscures reality. Just as pro-abortion advocates refer to themselves as pro-choice instead of what they really are, such a country would have a name that sounds just and fair minded and superior to the narrow bigots in the states that did not choose to join it.
Included with the NE states.
“the rural parts of Minnesota, Illinois and Pennsylvania divorced themselves from the left wing lunacy of Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Chicago”
Boy I like the sound of that...maybe we could call it “Lincoln”...as in the guy who freed the Democrats’ slaves...
Not if it is the liberal states who secede. Conservatives will be glad to see them go.
Can those of us in New Hampshire just give the college towns to the PRA and keep the rest of New Hampshire for freedom loving Americans? Those towns could just be like islands, associated with Massachusetts or Connecticut.
“What happens to New York?”
Me and mine and other NY freepers are out of town visiting Humblegunner. Onyx, and JR when the jihadis that the PRA supports blow NY to bits.
Humblegunner is so taken with our appreciation for his kindness that he even allows us to create a blog detailing our new adventures in the Free United States.
( : >)
Kurt Schlicter already wrote this book.
Well written and certainly better than Obama’s Dreams of my Farter. :)
Do you think gun loving Arizona is going to join the Commies?
I have reoccurring dreams of fleeing from drones.
It just seems drones are perfect for the enforcement of ‘correct” behavior.
This part is just the setting.
It’s getting bluer all the time because of Commiefornia liberals.
Nice start.
Does Texas turn blue?
My guess it does with the influx of ILLEGALS it is bound to happen in a VERY short period of time. After that, it will be all over.
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