The difference between my pool league analogy and our nation - is competition.
With pool leagues there is competition - if you don’t like what is happening in your pool league, you can always quit that league and join another one - or start another one.
That’s the way the Founders set up our Republic when they drafted the Constitution and made the states superior to the federation.
People on FR always flame me for saying this, but as soon as Lincoln forced the Confederate states not to secede - our Republic was lost.
The right of states to secede - for ANY reason - was the ultimate test of our liberty.
Slavery is evil - that’s for sure. I’m not defending slavery.
But if states are forced to comply for ANY REASON - then the United States is no better than the Soviet Union - it is held together by force, not consensus.
That’s what Lincoln did for us.
Flame away.
No flaming from me.
The separation thing is a complicated remedy. Like a divorce. (I’ve never experience one of those, only observed others who have.)
Recently I attended a meeting of a new Amateur Radio club in my area. One of the men there made an appeal after the meeting to collect signatures for a vote to put on the ballot Texas returning to the Republic of Texas. I did see one young man, from a family of early settlers in the region, sign it.
I explained to them that I’m not yet ready to encourage that and had not given up recovering the entire nation. And I pray daily for God’s help with that.
If it ever becomes necessary to leave, Texas will not be alone.
It is ironic that the civil war was partly fought over ending slavery. If another CW happens it will be to avoid the global slavery that Klauss and his Davos buddies wants to force us into. That is totally against the nature of the USA. And totally foreign to Texas.