“And you folks who think the states can still secede, that some of their armies could defeat the federal government, etc. really need to get a life. It ain’t happening and let’s pray it never does again.”
The question is, if one of the states today announced that it was amicably leaving the union (let’s say Texas or Vermont), would a tyrannical central government wage a scorched earth war on it rather than letting it go its own way?
“The question is, if one of the states today announced that it was amicably leaving the union (let’s say Texas or Vermont), would a tyrannical central government wage a scorched earth war on it rather than letting it go its own way?”
yep.