[darrellmaurina]

Please... no.

We have enough problems in the conservative movement without discussing the “merits” of secession.

To even raise that issue waves a red flag in front of a liberal bull.

I realize this is a liberal who raised the issue of whether secession would be a good idea, but some of us are taking the bait. That is not wise.

We all know there is virtually no chance of a secession happening without radical changes in the current political conditions. There is no point in discussing things that have virtually no chance of happening, especially when the discussion can get picked up by others as “proof” of conservatives being neo-Confederates.

This war was lost a hundred and fifty years ago. Let's move on and do what we can to fix the America we still have, not try to revive a Confederacy that failed.

[teflon9]

I agree that Thompson is engaging in the "Southerners are gap-toothed, racist, bible-thumpers" meme that liberals love to buy into. And maybe he wrote this thing with tongue firmly in cheek. But it's also true that the United States is more polarized than at any time since 1860 (yup, that's 1860, not 1960). I don't know how we get past this (as Hegel would have put it) internal contradiction.