Posted on 03/19/2009 3:34:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"What kind of revolution appeals most to you?" read the now-deleted poll question on Sean Hannity's message board: "Military Coup, Armed Rebellion, or War for Secession?"
The next four to eight years are gonna be some fun!
Barely two months into the Obama administration, wing-nuts across the land are frothing at the mouth, talking feverishly of secession, violent revolution, tax revolt, "going Galt," and national divorce. It would be hilarious if it weren't so creepy.
We all had a good laugh this past December when Igor Panarin, dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats, predicted that the financial crisis would eventually lead to widespread unrest, martial law, and, by 2010, a civil war in the US — the end result of which would be a motley collection of rump states like "Atlantic America" and the "Texas Republic," that then glom onto countries such as Canada and Mexico. It's an absurd idea.
Or is it? Perusing some of the sheer insanity spewed on rightist blogs, message boards, and comment threads — the pitchfork-shaking anger directed at this so-called socialist government — one has to wonder just what's percolating in this country. Maybe the big break-up is coming sooner than we think?
Obama talks a lot about his affinity for Abraham Lincoln. Let's just hope he doesn't end up having too much in common with the guy — that in addition to saving the economy, winning two wars, and curbing global warming, he doesn't find himself having to preserve the Union, too.
People are pissed. New faux-populist hero Rick Santelli has been enjoining citizens to register their disgust with the stimulus plan and budget by bombarding the White House and Capitol with tea bags — get it?! (The phenomenon has apparently caused headaches for workers charged with the safety screening of DC mail.) Meanwhile, 4000 people gathered this past Saturday for a so-called "Cincinnati Tea Party." Read one sign: HONK IF I'M PAYING YOUR MORTGAGE.
But protests do only so much. More and more, it seems, nothing less than outright secession will satisfy some of these cranks. The right-wing Web is all atwitter over a recent open letter, spreading from blog to blog like a hanta virus, by one "John J. Wall, Law Student and an American." In it, Wall puts it plainly: he wants a divorce.
"Let's just end it on friendly terms," he writes. "We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. . . . Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military." (What they'll do with all the guns he doesn't say.)
Ironically, when not busy fomenting revolution or concocting a plan to carve up the continental US, conservatives act a lot like the "hippies" that Wall went on to lambaste in his letter — thumbing their nose at authority and threatening to drop out of society.
It was reported on military.com last month that a soldier, First Lieutenant Scott Easterling, who is stationed in Iraq, has balked at following orders: "Until Mr. Obama releases a 'vault copy' of his original birth certificate for public review," he declared, "I will consider him neither my commander in chief nor my president, but rather, a usurper to the office — an impostor."
And the latest bit of in(s)anity making the rounds in conservative circles in is the notion of "going Galt," in which angry rich people protest Obama's fiscal policies by following the lead of John Galt —übermensch protagonist of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged — and removing their ostensibly valuable productivity from society.
Why? Because "a general strike among the wealth producers," as Michelle Malkin calls it, will help keep that wealth out of the grubby hands of the lower classes — those "moochers who claim your product by tears," in Rand's piquant description. Sigh.
Are we fated to fracture into Jesus Land and the People's Republic of Massafornia? Probably not. But maybe! Until and unless that day arrives, however, ours remains a riven nation. But if Malkin and their ilk want to "drop out" in the meantime, more power to 'em. It'll be nice, frankly, not to have to hear them talk for a while.
—Are we fated to fracture into Jesus Land and the People’s Republic of Massafornia?—
Your lips to God’s ears, Mike.
Good lord.
He already has “abandoned the union” because for his “ilk” there was never really any interest in “uniting”, only interest in dominating and ruling.
Here is a hint for the dismissive types: We are not some pampered Hollywood loud mouths making idle threats about moving to our homes on the French Riviera ... we are the people that pay 90% of the taxes, own 90% of the guns, grow 90% of the food, control the country outside of urban areas, and would rather go down fighting than see “The Government” become superior to “The People”.
I believe we were here first Marxist pigs.....
lol, love your tag line, I did trip over one of them, standing in the aisle of the Grange with her dog and two friends yakking. I had no idea who she was, I just wanted them to get the heck out of the way
“They are beginning to get antsy. Excellent ...”
They certainly are. I’ve been listening to the local, talk shows closely and the number of people calling in saying that they don’t see any recourse but to fight is eye-opening. I’m not talking about nut-bars but people who are speaking in a very calm, thoughtful manner.
The opposition will call in also and their responses range from hysterical ranting to absolute faith that Obama will make everything right.
I’ve never heard anything like this, even in the Clinton years.
“he doesn’t find himself having to preserve the Union, too.”
You can’t preserve a thing you despise and want dead.
That said, I can't totally object to what the writer says. To me it's clear that Obama's policies are and will be a disaster, but the Constitution does not guarantee a government of wisdom and prosperity. The man is our elected president and our republic presupposes a level of political and civic maturity from citizens to accept election results that we do not favor. Nonsense about secession and revolution may be a fun way to blow off steam and a great ratings builder for media figures, but it plays into the hands of those who would condemn all conservatives and all conservative principles. It's time for a lot of conservatives to grow up and quit being such drama queens.
Obama is the legal president, we need to support him as commander in chief and chief custodian of our nations security. We need to respect the office more than those on the far left did when GW Bush was in office. That does not mean that we should not do everything we can as the loyal opposition to defeat his harmful domestic policy.
Then there's this silliness about "going Galt". The inescapable laws of the marketplace will slowly and undramatically do what this recourse to Ayn Rand's character promises. But the workings of nature do not provide ratings and notoriety to cute conservative media commentators.
Yeah, I wish.
The little problem is that once the Massafornians have built their unlivable, unsustainable little Utopias they’ll flee to Jesus Land and work on wrecking that home.
I dunno. Maybe Jesus Land could take the Border Patrol along with the military and the NRA. Libs clearly have no use for it.
You live north of the Mason-Dixon?
Well south of it, as all my relatives since the 1700s.
There is a graveyard, not 10 miles from my house, filled with the bones of a bunch odd "silly" dead people. I guess believing in something and not wanting to go with the flow is "silly". You 're right I guess, "proud" to have you as a southern neighbor.
The greatest Confederate hero, Robert E. Lee, thought secession silly and illegal. He fought for Virginia, not out of any respect for the idiotic secession.
By your non-dismissive attitude, it appears that you seem very adept at making "friends", have you considered a move to Boston? It might befit you....
Have you ever read the 10th ammendment?
The "colonel's" head is buried, but not in sand.
“Military Coup, Armed Rebellion, or War for Secession?” I choose choice number 4: Work for restoring Constitutional Government here in the US, including standing up the feds through the states if need be! (peacefully on our part-let the Feds be the agressors, but always be ready if they infact do attack the States for standing against Unconstitutional Federal Edict).
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