[NTHockey]

It seems to me that there are three options available:
1. Accept the status quo & eventual loss of all freedom;
2. Peaceful secession - mass relocations & parsing the Treasury; or
3. All out revolution with all the attendant horrors.

Option 1 and 3 are non-starters. One is slavery; the other treason.
Option 2 is a viable solution; provided there is cooperation, something in very short supply in government.

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Politics lurch one way, then the other, but usually there's a reaction if somebody tries to go too far. The odds are good that we'll see a Republican Senate in 2014, and before too long, a Republican in the White House. I don't know if that will be enough, but it is something.

FWIW: "Mass relocations" usually aren't peaceful. They involve the loss of freedom for many people. The country's going to be very hard to divide up and a lot of people aren't living where they "should" be living.

[CodeToad]

“1. Accept the status quo & eventual loss of all freedom;
2. Peaceful secession - mass relocations & parsing the Treasury; or
3. All out revolution with all the attendant horrors”

Number 1 is not an option.
Number 2 won’t happen. Do you really think they are going to let their source of free money just walk out?
Number 3 is not treason no more than when our founding fathers did it. One man’s treason is another man’s revolution to throw off the chains of tyranny.