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The prospect of lots of dead Americans always seems to be ignored when talk of Glorious Secession is in the air.
I don’t think so.
Most of the military assets are in red states, and they are manned by folks that take the original American dream seriously.
The cities are the goiters that are hanging off the country right now. NYC is about to be ground zero in all of this.
This DeBlasio character is going to finally run the financial folks out of Manhattan, and that will be the ball game for NYC, since it literally is the only thing propping it up right now.
Obama declared war on JP Morgan this week. Dimon needs to fight it, or we will well and truly see some grim stuff.
The USG has been pushing the banks around for too long cleaning up messes they made.
Could their be a secession movement in the US? If there is, there will be a referendum on the Constitution first - to wit there will be people measuring the degree to which the laws and regulations have delaminated from the original intent.
It will go like all revolutions, and Jacques Barzun did that analysis better than anyone else. Read the first part of 500 Years of Western Civilization. Excellent stuff.