Not very likely, but Dan Norcini thinks that it should happen. Interestingly enough, secession is usually the answer to quite a lot of problems. If the conservative parts of the US left the liberal parts of the US, everyone should be happy right? The liberals can have their liberalism, and the conservatives their conservatism.
We all know that it doesn’t work that way, eventhough it actually could. What is interesting is that for all the hot air coming from liberals of how evil conservatives are, you never EVER hear a liberal saying he wished that liberal america could secede from conservative america. Now why is that, do you think?
I’ll leave that rethorical question hanging in the air.
The greeks (or germans) won’t even break away from the EU.
I mentioned it earlier on Captain Capitalism that American secession of the states would be the worst thing to happen to the North American continent ever. Instead of continental peace and prosperiety you would have a bunch of squabbling polities that absolutely would fight over resources, land, and fight because demographic boundries do not line up with political ones. In a sense a Europeanization of the American continent. The fall of Rome shows us how terrible and bloody this is.
It is terrible because the other alternative, outside of returning to our constitutional and limited government roots, doesn’t offer a much brighter picture. A unified American nation under a growing state apparatus may be peaceful, but it would hardly be prosperous.
Well, actually I might disagree with you on this one. The fall of the Roman Empire was indeed not pretty, but long-term it actually led to something good (admittedly it took quite a few centuries). The problem is that centralization has reached its apex, and is now about to do maximum damage to civil society. The only route out is back to de-centralization. Now, in the US this could easily be done by the States merely re-asserting their 10th amendment rights. This would be quite preferable to any dissolution of the United States as such. But before this happens, the bribering of the States by the federal government must stop – something that may occur when the money runs out.
The US has a rather unique situation because you actually have something of a contingency plan for when the Federal US government breaks down – there are already State parliaments that can fill the power vacuum. So in the most lucky of circumstances, the 10th amendment and individual US states may prevent utter chaos on the north american continent. One can always hope. I would predict that the states that take their independency most seriously will come out on top in such a situation, with California and the East Coast decending into utter trash. But a renewal of the US republic will likely come from the “backwards” traditionalist states, if it does occur.
Or at least, thats the way things look from over here in socialist Utopia
As a Texan and American, I’m for it. But yeah, it is curious you never hear libtard trash in Amerika propose forming their socialist paradise in California or the North East.
Texas is probably one of the states that have the biggest chance of succeeding in shoving the 10th amendment down the Federal Governments throat. I hope the planning has started already.
You weren’t paying much attention in the aftermath of the 2004 election, were you…
Actually I wasn’t, since I wasn’t even commenting on politics back then. So, you are basically saying that liberal america would have been glad to secede from conservative america back then? Not only in words ,but in action?
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