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12% See Secession Attempt as Very Likely in Next 25 Years Or So
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 22 June 2010 | Rasmussen Reports

Posted on 06/25/2010 1:17:00 PM PDT by LTCJ

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 28% of Adults believe it is at least somewhat likely that some states will try to leave the United States and form an independent country over the next 25 years or so.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: divorce; liberty; secession; separation
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To: LTCJ

If obama gets re-elected, do you think it will take 25 years?


61 posted on 06/25/2010 2:03:50 PM PDT by Ex-Democrat Dean
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To: TheZMan

I believe it will be utterly astounding the states that will leave the union. Just how many military installations do you suppose would be encompassed? It may be easier to list the states or city states that will not join (or be allowed to join) the “New American Order”.

Last year there was a very interesting conservation with an Admiral. A few situations and questions were proposed. His answers were, most would say... shocking. Let’s just say... those answers would make anyone I know more at ease and confident than they have been in the past umpteen years.


62 posted on 06/25/2010 2:07:12 PM PDT by Bubba (Build roads... Fight wars and stay out of MY live. FRREEEEEEDOM!)
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To: chicagolady

I will immediately move to whatever state is first.


63 posted on 06/25/2010 2:08:54 PM PDT by AGreatPer (America elected a Prince and got a Princess)
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To: Bubba

Was this a private conversation with you, or something more public?


64 posted on 06/25/2010 2:13:17 PM PDT by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: Bubba
Last year there was a very interesting conservation with an Admiral...

Gotta Link?

65 posted on 06/25/2010 2:16:56 PM PDT by AvOrdVet ("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
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To: Las Vegas Ron
25 years from now, we'll be Mexico.
66 posted on 06/25/2010 2:18:33 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: B-Chan
25 years from now there won?t be anything from which to secede.

You got that right!!

67 posted on 06/25/2010 2:23:38 PM PDT by Lil Flower (Hey, look at me!! I'm "Bloggin While White!!")
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To: B-Chan
25 years from now, we'll be Mexico.

Cool, I say make Hussong's Cantina the new capital!

68 posted on 06/25/2010 2:24:18 PM PDT by AvOrdVet ("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
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To: LTCJ

I wish it would, but not gonna happen.

“State” doesn’t mean anything any more. The federal government has cut the legs off the states and made them dependent on it. Although there is no constitutional authority to do so, the federal government has usurped all the power that properly belongs to the states.


69 posted on 06/25/2010 2:39:21 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism: severe deterioration of the thinking apparattus)
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To: SMARTY

Who ya gonna call now?


70 posted on 06/25/2010 2:47:37 PM PDT by Bookwoman ("...and I am unanimous in this...")
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To: GonzoGOP

“That’s the mistake the South made last time.”

Hahahahaha...thanks for the westside NYC history synopsis...


71 posted on 06/25/2010 3:01:42 PM PDT by jessduntno ( "The planet has a fever, and it's in Al Gore's pants." - Howie Carr)
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To: fightinJAG

“Then if a state wanted to be socialist, it could knock itself out doing so”

But socialism is predicated on confiscating money from the productive classes. Socialists are always parasites and cannot co-exist with capitalists. Even if a wall of economic separation could be erected between socialist and capitalist states, the socialist, by his very Luciferian nature, would seek to destroy the capitalist as an end in itself.


72 posted on 06/25/2010 3:05:24 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est)
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To: TheZMan

I love your tag!


73 posted on 06/25/2010 3:22:27 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Bubba
His answers were, most would say... shocking.

I didn't move in flag circles as a field grade officer. I'd be very interested in hearing more on this. Can you provide more details?

74 posted on 06/25/2010 3:46:19 PM PDT by LTCJ (The Constitution; first, last, always.)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
“State” doesn’t mean anything any more.

There are moves in the right direction, with sovereignty laws being passed and proposed in numerous states.

Georgia has a gubernatorial candidate basing his campaign on a heavy emphasis for states rights.

75 posted on 06/25/2010 3:56:45 PM PDT by LTCJ (The Constitution; first, last, always.)
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To: LTCJ

If one nationally respected voice legitimized the idea the percentage would go from 12 to 25 in a month.


76 posted on 06/25/2010 4:02:45 PM PDT by APatientMan
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To: GonzoGOP

How about just calling it the Reassertion of States Rights, or Reconfirmation of States Rights?


77 posted on 06/25/2010 4:06:17 PM PDT by Eva (Aand)
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To: APatientMan

I think you have a good point. Very much a “Emperor has no clothes” scenario.


78 posted on 06/25/2010 4:08:06 PM PDT by LTCJ (The Constitution; first, last, always.)
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To: Eva
How about just calling it the Reassertion of States Rights, or Reconfirmation of States Rights?

Exactly, just have the states pass laws reasserting the 10th amendment and local governance. Don't pick any fights you don't absolutely need to. Despite the low regard in which the progressives are viewed here, there are a lot of them. And they can bring in foreign troops from the UN and other socialist proxies to help them loot.

It is important to keep in mind exactly what we are after, the transfer of power away from Washington DC and back to the sovereign independent states. If that can be done without fighting all the better. If there is a fight then every effort must be made to divide the enemy against themselves. Drive a wedge between the pacifist peacenik wing and the militant socialist wings of the Democrat party. To use the terms set out by Ayn Rand we must pitt the looters against the moochers. If sold the right way there are a lot of Dems who might just want to push for state sovereignty. Especially if the threat of a Palin presidency combined with a GOP house and senate appear to be a credible threat.

Remember all the talk after the 2004 election about California, Washington and Oregon breaking away from G. W. Bush's "Jesus Land". Well find those people and make it clear that if they go their way we will be happy to go ours. If they want to butt bugger each other all day long we will not try to interfere in their state, so long as they don't try to interfere in ours.
79 posted on 06/25/2010 4:24:52 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: SMARTY
And when the Russians, Mexicans...etc. (whoever) step over your ‘border’ and start their monkeyshines... who you gonna call?

Well, considering that the next thing that will likely happen in the event of a secession is a "hostile takeover", I imagine we will be calling the Russians..."sir".

80 posted on 06/25/2010 7:55:42 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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