Posted on 04/05/2010 5:15:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ten years ago I asked the following question in a column titled "It's Time To Part Company":
"If one group of people prefers government control and management of people's lives and another prefers liberty and a desire to be left alone, should they be required to fight, antagonize one another, risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to impose their preferences or should they be able to peaceably part company and go their separate ways?"
The problem that our nation faces is very much like a marriage where one partner has broken, and has no intention of keeping, the marital vows. Of course, the marriage can remain intact and one party tries to impose his will on the other and engage in the deviousness of one-upmanship. Rather than submission by one party or domestic violence, a more peaceable alternative is separation.
I believe we are nearing a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them.
The Democrat-controlled Washington is simply an escalation of a process that has been in full stride for at least two decades. There is no evidence that Americans who are responsible for and support constitutional abrogation have any intention of mending their ways.
You say, "Williams, what do you mean by constitutional abrogation?" Let's look at just some of the magnitude of the violations.
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I da Ho and Utah won’t go with the Governator.
LSD - Lower, Slower Delaware
“...already tried that ...”
Well, yeah, but ... this time the Secesh crowd would have a lot of the Midwest farming and manufacturing areas. I believe we could make a go of it.
“The liberal will just screw up their side and move to our side.”
Immigration laws will just have to take into account a persons political worldview. Socialists simply can’t be allowed in, and the ones we have will be encouraged to leave as soon as possible.
Yes, of course their side will fail. It can’t work. Eventually it will have to be reintegrated much like East Germany was and North Korea will have to be. It will just have to be done carefully and the peoples will have to admit their entire worldview was wrong. They will need to disavow their previous political beliefs.
If we can just get them to peacefully go away, eventually they will be begging to come back.
Democrats would never allow it as there would be a very sharp contrast highlighting exactly why their positions are so wrong.
Every worker would move to the land of the free leaving a horde of system leeches behind in the tightly controlled land of “The Man”. The liberal gov’t would only last as long as the outside monies kept coming in, would be impossible to remain solvent otherwise.
I love the map, but I think we should be Texamerica.
You beat me to it, RatsDawg.
My answer:
Split? Absolutely not! If someone in government ignores or attacks the Constitution they should be defeated and removed - not given the benefit of any “split”
Does *ANYONE* think that those that desire to control the lives of other human beings will willingly *ALLOW* those that do not to simply go their own way?
Nanny-staters of both camps will fight tooth and nail to keep control of their subjects.
One peaceful solution would be a return to federalism, where states simply refuse to comply with unconstitutional federal laws (as determined by the residents of individual states). A return to federalism would allow states like California and Illinois to continue their love affairs with socialism while allowing other states to live free.
I know this probably wouldn’t work, because leftists are not keen about letting other people live free. For one thing, there would probably be a mass exodus from left-leaning states to liberty loving ones. In the long run, they’d cut their own throats, but at least the rest of us would be spared from the totalitarian future they plan for themselves.
I do agree with Walter Williams that there’s a great divide between Americans who want government to do everything and those who simply want to be left alone. How is it even possible to still compromise with folks who are so diametrically opposed to the things we hold dear? Seriously! How can one even “reach across the aisle” to compromise with people who literally want to control every aspect of other people’s lives (except abortion)?
AND people fear social conservatives, growing angry if we merely mention the need for self-restraint (or Jesus). Some are so fearful of losing their porn, they fight as as though we are like the leftists who want to control what you drive, what you eat, where you live, how much you keep...
It’d be better to move ‘em to California, so when the earthquake comes, they’ll all fall into the ocean.
I’d be willing—as long as the conservatives get the West.
They'd certainly try to prevent all that petroleum and refining infrastructure from leaving - and they'd do so without acknowledging even a fleeting sense of irony.
“Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.” - Sam Houston
Amen.
...or maybe we can just put all the idiots (liberals, that is) on a big boat and send them all to Europe where they can live under the socialism that they clamour for.
There are many, many American families who where there in 1775. We will be there again...
Yes.
Yep, but the blue states are BROKE now....
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