“You have a right to your opinion. I never meant otherwise. But the state of Texas is not going to secede. Ever. We have heard this before. Every few years.”
In an earlier posting, you said you had been around politics since 1972. That’s about the same time I started noticing things, as well.
Let me ask you a question:
In 1972, if I had told you that in twenty years the mighty Soviet Union would crumble and cease to exist as a nation, and if had told you that it would split into a “Commonwealth of Independent States”, what would you have told me in return?
C’mon, be honest with your reply...
The “mighty Soviet Union” got that way by conquering a group of extant countries. It didn’t start as a large, amorphous territory that then organized a la the USA. Its dissolution amounted to allowing those countries to become extant once more.
“In 1972, if I had told you that in twenty years the mighty Soviet Union would crumble and cease to exist as a nation, and if had told you that it would split into a “Commonwealth of Independent States”, what would you have told me in return?”
Exactly. Or Yugoslavia, or Czechoslovakia (at least that was a peaceful breakup and a good blueprint) or the Sudan (well maybe we might have seen that one coming).