Posted on 10/24/2014 6:34:03 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
Better idea - We keep the United States of America intact, governed by the original Constitution as written by our founding fathers, but form a Progressive (Socialist) States of America. The states in the PSSA would include the former cities of New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, and a few others but only include current city limit borders. They could keep Washington DC, and ALL (both parties) politicians, as their capital and leaders. We in the USA would create a capital at Dallas. The Statue of Liberty an the Liberty Bell would be relocated to the new Capital. Now that's a succession!!!
You and me both.
Good luck with that. The liberals have been winning for over four decades. Cloward/Priven is now a conservatives best hope. It ain’t happening at the polls.
Yeah, and if you made Cliff Notes for it, we on the short attention span side of humanity could comment too :-)
Okay, if you insist. It will take the place of the latest ebola case with my morning coffee. I’m up to the part about Jackson, and so far, each part could be its own essay. I hope this was something you did in an academic setting, because it’s an excellent overview. You had me with the bit I quoted earlier about the Progressives. I look forward to the rest.
It began life as a 45 minute lecture to a Tea Party group in coastal Georgia in 2011. I was mobbed at the end of the lecture.
Hahaha! Mobbed in a good way, I hope. It’s usually too warm and muggy in coastal Georgia to do much mobbing, so it had to be good! That’s great, and I’m glad you took the time and care to do it. I honestly believe that people are starved for substance. I’m guessing you were taken aback at the reception you got.
The mobbing came at the end when I gave out printed handouts. I didn't expect so much enthusiasm, but I think much of it came from linking the Tea Party to the original concept of Federalism.
Yeah, but the problem is that all the takers and fools need the people who can make stuff and aren’t morons to support them and enable their delusions (while simultaneously being the butt of them). Some of them consciously or unconsciously realize this, and the ones who don’t, soon after partitioning, would. (They think of it as “the more fortunate” “doing their fair share” and “helping the less fortunate”)
Cool. I won’t even have to move.
That sounds like a pretty amazing event. The 16th, 17th, and 18th ... they were on quite the roll, weren’t they? I know it’s popular to blame the 16th for so many woes, but without the 17th, it wouldn’t matter nearly as much. The 17th completely changed the structure of our government, and for the worse. It was likely the final nail in the coffin, because the Senate was the barrier that the New Deal Supreme Court Justices had to get through, not to mention the Senate’s primary role in the New Deal.
Have a good evening, and I very much look forward to finishing your essay in the morning.
........the concept of “irreconcilable differences” I agree with. And, I think geography is the only way to cure it. Take Massachusetts as just one example. That electorate and the Texas electorate are NEVER going to reconcile. Do we want that constant fighting for kids and grandchildren?
Same with California!
As Thomas Paine said......”if there is going to be trouble let it be now so that my children can live in peace”.
ummmm I hate to disappoint the ambitious author but that was already tried once before
Word...
It's a crap idea, as it would put TEXAS in the Liberal States of Utopia.
Ain't a chance in hell we Texans would ever go for that.
No, he didn't.
Ted Kennedy and the Democrats stabbed Reagan in the back by not living up to their end of the deal and closing the southern border.
Get your history straight.
Absolutely.
I've said many times, that if the red states banded together and seceded from the union, within ten years, the blue states would come begging on bended knee to rejoin us.
Any reunification would then be on OUR terms.
AMEN!!
The Sovereign States of America.
I knew someone was going to come to this thread with that well worn (and erroneous) conclusion. Happens on every secession thread.
Look - this isn't 1861. Americans are not going to commit mass genocide against their own countrymen over the purely political question of secession.
It's a fear rooted in failure to accurately gauge the tenor of our times.
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