Posted on 11/10/2020 10:28:58 AM PST by rickmichaels
Irrelevant U.S. election subplots dep’t: last week, four counties in eastern Oregon held non-binding ballot measures on seceding from the state and joining Idaho. Many of you will have seen news images from Oregon this year — most of them depicting racial unrest in Portland, the metropolis that has its own hyper-progressive international cult. You can imagine how the rural parts of the state regard this sort of thing. Or, rather, you don’t have to imagine: they held a vote, and in two Oregon counties, Union and Jefferson, secession actually won by a nose.
The victories are the work of a “Greater Idaho” movement that’s seeking to flee the grip of Oregon’s liberal Willamette Valley and join a more bucolic state that, culturally and economically, resembles eastern Oregon (and slices of northern California) much more closely. This sort of frontier secessionist impulse is pretty much universal, and on the American continent it ranges from Fort St. John, B.C., to Camden, N.J. Friends and readers have heard me refer to an informal “Greater Alberta,” superimposed on the real map but far from imaginary, which includes Alberta-like parts of southeastern B.C. and western Saskatchewan.
The true purpose of Greater Idaho’s militancy is, of course, to provide a venue for rural protest against Oregon’s high-ish taxes and various forms of state-level regimentation, including environmental regulations that irk farmers and developers. Message sent. But the theory that Oregon could hand large parts of itself over to Idaho is amusingly plausible in some respects. Greater Idaho social-media troublemakers have certainly thought out, researched and written up their insolent plans with an assiduousness of which Canada’s Wexit theorists can only dream.
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BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID!
Know what scares me more than the Democrat’s effort to steal ANOTHER in a long string of elections?
That around 40%+ of those we encounter each day are NOT OFFENDED AND ANGRY ABOUT IT and MOST ACTUALLY APPLAUD THEIR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR!
The soul of a nation lies in the hearts of the citizens.
Even if this CRIME is resolved in Trump’s favor (and it WILL BE!), FOLKS, WE’RE STILL IN BIG TROUBLE (AS IN “CIVIL WAR” INITIATED BY THE SAME ANTIFA/BLM MORONS WHO BURN, BEAT & KILL)!
HITLER’S BROWN SHIRTS COME TO MIND and I wonder if concern for their PERSONAL SAFETY is what’s keeping some folks from PUBLICLY resisting the IN-YOUR-FACE CRIMINALITY OF THE LEFT?
From what I’ve seen, eastern Washington may want to join in too.
The interesting thing about Oregon....if you draw a 40-mile circle around Eugene and Portland...it’s 70-percent liberal Democrat. The entire rest of the state, it’s around 60-percent Republican, and of the Democrats...half are what you’d consider moderate. It’s been that way for over three decades.
It’s a case where the state ought to be divided up. But you have the same issues in California as well....it ought to be divided into three to four states.
Hey, let’s have a vote before every census in which a county gets to decide which state it wants to be in of the existing 50. Then we conduct the census and reapportion appropriately.
I’m half serious.
Why should I care what orangutans think?
Learn from the Left. The Left established “sanctuary” cities and states, ignored Federal drug laws and elected prosecutors who refused to enforce the law. Any government entity controlled by decent people in Oregon or for that matter anywhere must defend their rights and refuse to obey and acknowledge patently unconstitutional laws that violate their rights. Hostility and defiance of the vile Left is necessary and patriotic.
Northern Nevada too.
You bet we do.
Its really not a bad idea.
I was born in SK, Canada and grew up more in BC. Pretty much a western separatist.
Do you know the TRU history of why canada came about? Not a lot of Americans know this..
All provinces are threatened by Quebec to pay EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS And if not, they separate hence the 1995 referendum.
In an email discussion with a friend he told me that this sister and her husband have finally left Portland, and they are so glad to be out of there. 8>)
That writer sure sounds smug and condescending about this idea. Maybe he’s afraid it will get traction.
At this point, all the large cities have much more in common with each other than the rural, small towns and exurbs. Probably applies in any state.
I think their elections have been stolen ever since the mail in ballot crap started....
probably the same with Washington....
how many elections have been stolen by these rats?..
***if you draw a 40-mile circle around Eugene and Portland***
Much like the human body building a cell wall around a boil to keep it isolated and from infecting other areas.
Idaho, like Russia, wants a warm water port!
I remember when Quebec was considering declaring itself an independent nation. Many of the Western provinces thought about then becoming a part of the US.
As on Canadian said at the time...”Why would Canada want fifty more provinces.”
It would only be a short term fix. Boise is going woke.
I think a lot of states have been under the fraud of the Demafia for decades. Even CA, the dems always win, but voter referendums typically go conservative. Something doesn’t jive.
If I was 52 instead of 82, I would move to one of the nice conservative areas in the Future Greater Idaho. To help it become a revised state, Greater Idaho.
That area would have a lot of good people, who are conservative and hardworking and good people as neighbors/friends. 60-70% of your neighbors would be conservative and possess the same values.
Also, it would be one of the most beautiful and diverse (not PC!) areas to live and work in.
It should be an easier sell to its future citizens and old states, than the so called State of Jefferson, which involves creating a new state.
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