Posted on 04/05/2010 5:15:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ten years ago I asked the following question in a column titled "It's Time To Part Company":
"If one group of people prefers government control and management of people's lives and another prefers liberty and a desire to be left alone, should they be required to fight, antagonize one another, risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to impose their preferences or should they be able to peaceably part company and go their separate ways?"
The problem that our nation faces is very much like a marriage where one partner has broken, and has no intention of keeping, the marital vows. Of course, the marriage can remain intact and one party tries to impose his will on the other and engage in the deviousness of one-upmanship. Rather than submission by one party or domestic violence, a more peaceable alternative is separation.
I believe we are nearing a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them.
The Democrat-controlled Washington is simply an escalation of a process that has been in full stride for at least two decades. There is no evidence that Americans who are responsible for and support constitutional abrogation have any intention of mending their ways.
You say, "Williams, what do you mean by constitutional abrogation?" Let's look at just some of the magnitude of the violations.
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Yes, that is a great map. We in Texas will support this redistribution effort.
Can we move all the libs to the east coast and keep the west wild and free?
“should they be required to fight, antagonize one another, risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to impose their preferences or should they be able to peaceably part company and go their separate ways?”
Oh, the left will be in serious trouble if it comes down to a fight.
The liberals have some union muscle and a lot of ghetto dwellers to throw into the battle, but that is about it. They’d be in serious trouble if regular, suburban/rural, patriotic, gun owning American’s ever really decided to fight.
Well, I guess the socialists have aging hipsters, homosexuals, and college radicals in reserve, but they would likely surrender to even a few troops of cub scouts (whom the left no doubt view as the modern Hitler Youth).
No, the liberals better hope it never comes down to a real fight. They would lose and lose really, really fast.
Love too.
Unfortunately liberals need our money. They’re not going to let us walk out without a fight.
Not after Nov 2nd.
The problem is that the divisions are not just between states in states. Get a county map. Essentially, the left is comprised of urban areas, some inner-ring suburbs, and Black and Latino rural counties. The rest is Republican.
Nice map.
I see it was uploaded by photobucket user “Bitter_clinger”, LOL!
We get all of VA. All liberals and illegals will be relocated to Chicagostonia. We should buy their houses just to get them out of our hair. We will re-annex these territories after they fall FOTA which they would do in less than 10 years.
Absolutely yes.
When civil discourse has failed, civil war is next.
Yeah, but it's gonna put me right on the border with Chicagostonia. And I've already seen how some texans guard their borders.
Y’know...I live in Western WA State. If it came down to splitting based on politics, I see no reason why the Hell I can’t stay right where I am!
I have in-laws in Texas, but there’s no way in Hell that I could afford to move myself and 4 kids down there.
Why do _I_ have to move? Let the rat scum leave, not me!
Yes YES YES! It is beyond time for a national divorce.
Aw shoot, I thought this map was showing what portions where under water after the great Tsunami....
They could take Detroit!
Good point. Central Texas would be better. We do have one itsy-bitsy problem. Water.
Notice that every part falls under the sway of some foreign power.
That part has the ring of truth.
We become a global joke if we can't keep our union together.
“The problem is that the divisions are not just between states in states. Get a county map. Essentially, the left is comprised of urban areas, some inner-ring suburbs, and Black and Latino rural counties.”
Yeah, that is the problem. Even in the red areas, the urban sectors are dominated by leftists. Once an area gets urbanized it tends to vote for socialists. It appears to be a collectivist mindset that develops along with urban zones just attracting a lot of leechers and generally useless people who can kinda blend in and mooch off productive folks.
I think there may be some hope for the Black and Latino rural areas, but the urban zones are utterly hopeless. Urban areas will have to be entirely rethought going forward in order to prevent this collectivist mindset from rising over and over and over again.
The major problem with this idea is that the control lovers wouldn’t be happy with their section. They would look at the more prosperous liberty loving country and be eaten up with envy. Then they would move in... take over small enclaves, gradually increasing their representation... tweaking elections here and there... etc., just like they’ve done with the whole US. The deal is, they wouldn’t be happy to live and let live—authoritarians never are. As long as one person is outside of their control, they will not be happy.
That is why the country cannot be split. We must fight by whatever means necessary—limit “social” programs, force government onto a diet, and educate, educate, educate.
The liberal will just screw up their side and move to our side.
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