Damn right we are angry.
I think Texas is the sleeping giant.
I decided last week to order the SECEDE sticker. I am starting to see more and more of them around town.
I would love to see a real showdown between us and the feds. The fact is they need us more than we “need” them.
Prior to secession, there IS one thing that the Governor and the Texas Legislature need to get together and do: Draft a Constitution for a new National Government. Feel free to base it upon the U.S. Constitution, but take pains to remedy verbiage in the original that has proven vulnerable to, er, “reinterpretation.” Also, make it a point to sift through the various and sundry Amendments, and cull out the weak sisters among them (16th, etc).
Perhaps restrict the right to vote to those who are actual stakeholders (land owners, business proprietors, investors, etc), rather than simply residents. Either way, make the presentation of legal, verifiable identification mandatory.
Maybe constitutionally outlaw the imposition of property and estate taxes... Whatever you end up with, it had better not be 2,000+ pages, or we’ll all know there were RINOs involved, and that’ll kill the whole deal.
Anyhow, at the time of secession, publish the draft document, and invite any and all like-minded States to join Texas in the formation of a new Nation having that Constitution as its foundation.
Then sit back with a cold brew and watch as the game transforms into Constitution v. Constitution, and — all across America — “We, The People” wake up to a real opportunity to grab the brass ring of freedom; to decide which Constitution better defines the True nature of Liberty (above the purview of governments to define or to limit), and better protects same.
The gambit might not have the magnitude of impact that one might like, but it’s a fair bet that a half dozen States would jump that fence in short order, and MANY others would face great popular pressure to follow suit. Those that didn’t come on along would face serious issues with net outmigration, and the first problem faced by the new Nation would be how to deal with a sudden influx of Americans who’s former States of residence hadn’t had the foresight to abandon a sinking ship of state.
Whatever the ultimate outcome, it’d be worth it all just to subject the elites in Washington D.C. and their leg-humping media presstitutes to that intense degree of pucker factor.