Posted on 02/18/2021 9:57:53 AM PST by cotton1706
By your measure, Americans are incapable of self-government.
For many that would be an accurate description, and not just the twits running around spouting socialist nonsense and evidencing magical thinking that once they tear down what is here somehow a new society of kindness and fairness will pop up.
(Consider this: https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/regurgitating-the-apple-how-modern-liberals-think )
The Cultural Marxists have done their job well. So too have more than a century of race grievance pimps, already a thing to be described by Booker Washington at the dawn of the 20th. Likewise too many people have been also conditioned to be entitled and hold out their hands, not to the Lord but to government. The list goes on and on.
Even discounting the Left for which nothing of the old extreme Left is extreme to it anymore (which is why Sanders doesn’t have to pretend he’s not a Democrat anymore) you still have people who love the benefits of Arbitrary government derived from FDR’s lawlessness. Who think they’ve a right to see others defrauded of their means for illegitimate benefits simply because they were already similarly defrauded to give illegitimate benefits to others (entitlements are the proverbial gateway drugs for Arbitrary government).
In every respect this nation has dry rot everywhere, arguably no town or community is free of it, and what remains that might otherwise be sound and trustworthy is undermined by said dry rot.
The falling away is also happening already, and for evidence I would point out that the fruit ascribed to lives that have been turned over to reprobate minds is very common in this culture. Indeed, mere perversion without madness is yesterday’s news given the rise of genderism.
Secession is more aggressive than nullification, but nullification is just one step away from it. Secession creates a constitutional crisis which can result in a declaration of the Insurrection Act, and occupation by federal troops. That leads to something like Lexington and Concord eventually. Who fires the first shot in a civil war is mostly a matter of image. The underlying intractable political dispute was already present.
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With respect to your first sentence, I agree that federal troops could be deployed against militia groups loyal to the Seceding State. That will be where the rubber meats the road won’t it.
For our side to have a chance against a professional military we would have to have overwhelming numbers. Would our side show up to a fight? I don’t know. If we didn’t, then we must be able to take orders and lose most of our rights.
All this alarm over a States Convention is unwarranted. As a few pointed out it takes 3/4 approval to get anything done, and the battle to hammer out terms and language to assuage that super-majority takes time and much effort. But it should be started if only to get Congress closer to it's assigned track.
Those Founding Fathers were crafty sons of guns - it'll take more than knocking their statues down to dent their legacy. An honest judiciary would recognize the Commerce Clause has been stretched far beyond original intent just like the definition of citizenship. It's time for a revival meeting!
you are 100% correct on every sentence as far as I am concerned.
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