Posted on 04/30/2013 7:00:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Lets face iton nearly every important issue, from gun control to immigration to gay marriage, red states are holding America back. Lee Siegel on why the South should get the hell out of the union.
Lets not be fooled by all the bipartisan rhetoric that has been streaming out of the GOP since Romneys self-destruction. Hundreds of thousands of petitioners in a handful of red states still want to secede? Well, dont let the door hit you on the way out.
A solid block of Southern states continues to refuse to expand Medicaid, thus squashing one of the linchpins of the presidents health-care reform. The South will likely be the last and most stubborn battleground in the fight for gay marriage. Gun control? The more the two sides seem to get cozier with each other, the faster gun-control legislation gets watered downand more and more red states are passing laws making it legal to carry a concealed weapon. As for immigration, the red states seem to be relaxing their anti-immigrant fervor, but nothing approaching new legislation is even on the horizon.
The sad truth is that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness can only be achieved at this point if the nation is split in half. Far from being fanciful or fanatical, the proponents of secession have a stronger grasp of political reality than just about anyone else. In fact, there are serious reasons why the North itself should take the lead in a secessionist movement.
Just think what America would look like without its mostly Southern states. (We could retain America: they could call themselves Smith & Wesson or Coca-Cola or something like that.) Universal health care. No guns. Strong unions. A humane minimum wage....
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
You called?
For maybe about a year... which is about how long it would take every industry that builds things, fixes things or grows things to move south. All that would be left north of the Mason Dixon line would be tax cheats, welfare bums, poverty pimps, drug addicts and perverts of various genera. All of whom would starve because there would be no real money coming into the tax coffers and whatever the North uses for currency wouldn't be worth it's weight in raw organic fertilizer.
Sounds like a great idea. Let's do it!
The media only started perpetually calling them “Red States” in the past 4 election cycles. Before then, the colors were designated blue for Republicans and red for Democrat-National-Socialists.
I won’t let the commie rat bastards pull the wool over my eyes.
The same Baby Boomer “68 Revolution” red diaper doper babies are pushing the same agenda. Some refer to them as “New Democrats”. I prefer Red Dupes. Let THEIR states be known as Red States.
Some of us are still true blue Americans.
God, I wish! I cut loose from those idiot liberals in the north in a minute and then restore all our freedoms.
Umm huh.
No guns.
Keep going
Strong unions.
Let's hear the rest.
A humane minimum wage. A humane immigration policy. High revenues from a fair tax structure. A massive public-works program. Legal gay marriage.
You understand that you would not have high revenue. Your tax structure would cause revenue to fall, right? Ok you don't. Carry on then.
A ban on carbon emissions.
You want people to stop breathing?
Electric cars. Stronger workplace protections. Extended family leave from work in case of pregnancy or illness. Longer unemployment benefits. In short, a society on a par with most of the rest of the industrialized worlda place whose politics have finally caught up with its social and economic realities.
In short a place where even you would not want to live.
Why would I hire any of your workers? They would be lazy, uneducated, expensive and just plain not worth it.
And why would I even have a business any way?
You would want to take everything I earned to support your wish list.
So businesses would close up and leave.
You would need those longer unemployment benefits.
But where would you get the money to pay them?
You could try to take them from your neighbor.
But you have no guns.
How about Al Gore as Mister Freeze?
I posted before I read the entire article. I thought at first it was satire, then halfway through it made a litle sense. Then it went totally in the trash. Great hospitals, teaching colleges, museums bla bla bla.. all in blue states. What BS.The south descending into theocracy? I think not. Has this person ever been out of their little blue world to experience what actually exists in flyover country? It’s a wonder we can even continue to exist without smartasses like this to show us the way/s
You’re overanalzing. They’re dumbasses.
How does this "genius" interpret a government monopoly on legal weapons ownership as "no guns?"
One inconvenient factor overlooked by the author is the industrial might of the South. In 1860, the North was heavily into manufacturing while the South was agrarian. Today, the South is more industrialized than the North, has oil and coal plus the facilities to process them. It has many more chemical plants than the North.
So go ahead Yankees,secede.
Yep. Their racist, xenophobic ignorance is showing.
2012 map
then when they have 95% of all the blacks we will see how they like it, how proud they will be of their obesity and diabeties numbers then! how proud they will be of their public schools ect!
Underneath the heavy doses of progressive SNARK , this guy spells out their agenda pretty well. The problem is , if he ever got his dream country, he'd be living in a Marxist prison state.
I’m ready to go. Buy-bye, Yankeelandia!
But I can't help but hope that somewhere a spark of intelligence still flickers in at least a few.
if the south secedes who’ll pay for all the welfare parasites in big northern cities like NY? Boston? Detroit? Chitcago?? and out west like LA??
Sounds good to me. Texas has enough oil and other natural resources to stand on it’s own.
The Marxists can freeze in the dark for all I care.
I understand the urge to reach, reeeeeeeach for some elements of cognition ... but it’s not there. Somehow, they’re breathing and maintaining heart function with no brain operation.
Someone should write a science fiction story about zombies.
agree we have the south but all the yankee liberals can take a flying jump back home in south east FL seeing as they like their old state so much and want us down here ot look like their old state
No, after reading the entire column, it appears that this buffoon is completely serious...and suffering serious brain damage from anoxia, caused by having his head wedged too far up his own rectum for too long.
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