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Batty Secession Schemes Gain a Foothold Among Rural Conservatives
Bill Moyers.com ^ | 9-12-13 | Joshua Holland

Posted on 10/05/2013 11:49:56 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat

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To: Vince Ferrer

Nothing on this Earth is as bizarre as Bill Moyers and the people who believe his socialist spew.


21 posted on 10/05/2013 12:33:52 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: RKBA Democrat

Idiot Moyers doesn’t understand the difference between secession (leaving the union) and splitting states up to create more states. Few advocate the former and the legions of people supporting the latter are growing every day.

I remember when I was a kid, Dad and his friends would have very happily split upstate NY off from NYC and created a separate state. Even in the 50s and 60s, they were very angry about the state sending all their tax money to the NYC cesspool. I remember very clearly them complaining about it.


22 posted on 10/05/2013 12:36:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: RKBA Democrat

Idiot Moyers doesn’t understand the difference between secession (leaving the union) and splitting states up to create more states. Few advocate the former and the legions of people supporting the latter are growing every day.

I remember when I was a kid, Dad and his friends would have very happily split upstate NY off from NYC and created a separate state. Even in the 50s and 60s, they were very angry about the state sending all their tax money to the NYC cesspool. I remember very clearly them complaining about it.


23 posted on 10/05/2013 12:36:44 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: RKBA Democrat

Idiot Moyers doesn’t understand the difference between secession (leaving the union) and splitting states up to create more states. Few advocate the former and the legions of people supporting the latter are growing every day.

I remember when I was a kid, Dad and his friends would have very happily split upstate NY off from NYC and created a separate state. Even in the 50s and 60s, they were very angry about the state sending all their tax money to the NYC cesspool. I remember very clearly them complaining about it.


24 posted on 10/05/2013 12:36:44 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: RKBA Democrat
Conservative activists in five rural Maryland counties are fed up with what they see as the tyranny of a democratically elected state government they don’t control.

Liberal activists in the Senate and the WH are fed up with what they see as the tyranny of a democratically elected House of Representatives they don't control.

25 posted on 10/05/2013 12:43:21 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Bill would be wise to show a little pause when so many of his fellow citizens are talking secession.

Bill won’t think its funny when it comes to his doorstep.


26 posted on 10/05/2013 12:54:22 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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27 posted on 10/05/2013 12:54:29 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: RKBA Democrat; Bender2

I live in one of those counties. Ain’t a political protest. Sick of socialism and the monopoly of liberal urbanites. This movement will grow until secession occurs.


28 posted on 10/05/2013 12:57:18 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: RKBA Democrat

A precedent was established in West Virginia long ago ... and many “whites” supported it b/c it was done against racists (Democrats) & slavery.


29 posted on 10/05/2013 1:02:53 PM PDT by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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To: Vince Ferrer
It is rural vs. city.

Wasn't it kind of like that in the Civil War? If so, things have not changed much.

30 posted on 10/05/2013 1:04:24 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: Mark17

Let us see.

Who is the highest ranking elected secessionist?

Well, the Mayor of Jackson MS is. He is also an open racist, segregationalist and everything else. And he apparently got 86% of the vote

But of course, the MSM is silent because he is black


31 posted on 10/05/2013 1:05:54 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: RKBA Democrat

Bill may be 79 or whatever, and learned a lot interviewing leftists for so many years, but he never learned we live in a Constitutional republic, not a democracy.

He once held a series of great interviews with the late Joseph Campbell, who studied ancient cultures, whose overriding message was “Follow your bliss”. Hey Bill, secessionists CAN’T, due to the governments telling us we need to follow THEIR bliss.


32 posted on 10/05/2013 1:14:36 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: RKBA Democrat

Problem is there is still too high percent liberal in the rural areas. Where as big cities are usually 90%+ lib. But I still like the idea. They say we can’t survive if we’re divided, we’re divided now, let’s make it official.


33 posted on 10/05/2013 1:15:14 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

“Batty Secession Scheme ... Bizarre ats it seems”

When it is REALLY batty or bizarre, the writer needn’t force it into the story. No newspaper ran a headline saying, “Millions Believe Elvis is Still Alive”.

This is the journalistic equivalent of a sit-com laugh track.


34 posted on 10/05/2013 2:34:50 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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