Posted on 06/06/2016 8:16:48 AM PDT by Right-wing Librarian
Monckton: It’s Time For ‘Texit’ — Texas Should Secede, Thatcher Advisor Says
AUSTIN, TX – Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount of Brenchley, thinks Texas should secede from the United States.
In his native Britain, voters are preparing to decide whether they will remain in the European Union.
Here in the United States, Texas just last month considered putting secession on the ballot. The Republican Party of Texas killed the measure.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/04/monckton-its-time-for-texit-texas-should-secede-thatcher-advisor-says/#ixzz4AoRtQBZs
I’ve thought about what you suggest and wonder:
If they don’t follow the current Constitution, who is going to make them follow a new, revised, stricter constitution?
A Free Republic is meant only for a deeply moral and religious people. There would be no problem if we had the same level of morality and fear of God that we had at our nation’s founding.
Rather than undertaking a risky Constitution Convention, which doesn’t appear to be able to be enforced any better than the current one, I think we as a nation have to realize that we are no longer a republic, and haven’t been for many decades. Every day I read articles reporting government’s overreach, violating citizens’ rights and liberty.
What we appear to have now is a “soft” tyranny. We are “allowed” to speak our minds and dissent only to a certain degree, beyond which the Tyrant “deals” with in a wholly illegal manner.
As far as I can tell, there really seems to be just one solution left, and most of us are too old and ill to embrace it, while the much of the remainder is ignorant and in many cases, willing so.
I believe that is why so many see in Mr. Trump, that small sliver of hope that one man (selected and guided by the Almighty) just might be able to bring about restoration, by whatever means he needs.
I would bet that the populations of all of the border counties in Texas do not add up to the population of the suburbs of Houston.
The Big Cities in Texas do not have the influence that they do in other States, it is the surrounding communities that the majority of people live in, they are the people who decide the direction of the state on a Local and National electoral basis.
And as of now and for the foreseeable future they are solidly conservative/republican.
Could it change?. Yes, but not anytime soon.
I agree.
We have oil aplenty, lots of agriculture, fishing, lots of vets and arms, a chemical industry second to none, a vibrant hi-tech industry, space-industrial infrastructure, etc., etc. Also, we send more money to DC than DC sends back, so we could simply stop sending DC anything and then have a big tax cut while still funding the state budget (which, BTW, is balanced and often produces big surpluses).
Let’s go for it - we’ll be one of the world’s largest economies, and largely self-sufficient in many regards.
To paraphrase Davy Crockett: “You liberals may all go to Hell, but I’m going to Texas!”
My part of Texas is nothing like California.
Texas bump for later...
“My part of Texas is nothing like California.”
Maybe so, but as you say, it’s just “your part” of Texas. Texas big cities are NO DIFFERENT than those in Califiornia! But you just live in your insular “part of Texas” while the rest of it moves inexorably toward you. It will consume “your place” sooner or later!
You apparently do not know much about Texas, living in your insular part of California and all.
Forgot to mention that Texas has a deep water port.
“My part of Texas is nothing like California.”
Sorry pal, used to work in Texas, and I know quite a bit about it as a consequence. The problem people who think like you have is that they deny reality.
“WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela took a poison pen to the Republican presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, in an open letter Monday morning.
“Mr. Trump, you’re a racist and you can take your border wall and shove it up your ass,” the Brownsville Democrat wrote in a lengthy missive to the real estate magnate.”
Oh, I didn’t think there were people in Texas who thought like this? And you have DemoRATs like this in Austin, SA, Houston, Whacko and Dallas. Coming to a “insular” podunk town near you in the very near future!
“The Big Cities in Texas do not have the influence that they do in other States, it is the surrounding communities that the majority of people live in, they are the people who decide the direction of the state on a Local and National electoral basis.”
Could it change? It’s changing as this is being written. The very idea that the big cities aren’t where the political power is in Texas is a notion not borne out by the facts.
For instance?.
I have been to many cities in Texas and I spent some years in California. I have never been reminded of California even when I am in Austin. Texas is not like California. There is a reason why I do not live in California anymore and it isn’t the weather. When I am home I carry a weapon pretty much everywhere I go as do a large number of my fellow Texans. The laws in Texas are written so we can actually use them to protect ourselves, our property and others if we need to do so. I suppose that is the main reason that Texas is not remotely like California. There are some nuts in Texas but they do not run the state as they have in California for the past 20+ years.
LOL!
” I have never been reminded of California even when I am in Austin”
Well, then you’ve never been to the Silcon Valley, because Austin is the Silicon Valley with horse$hit and cowboy boots. Most of the major SV players are also in Austin. And your brand of “nuts” are working their way toward you from places like Brownsville.
I have been to the Silicon Valley and it is not like Austin. How long did you live in Austin again? Perhaps the airports are similar.
“...we thought California had “a very different base mindeset” too. Turns out, we were wrong...”
Yeah, you were wrong about Californians, and you’re wrong today about Texans. But I was wrong too, once upon a time.
As a native Californio of some fifty years residency, I think I know a thing or two about the mindset of people there, both past and present.
I’ve now been a Texas resident for ten years, and can tell you that Texas conservatives have a whole different mindset than their California cousins. It’s a cultural thing, and it’s very real.
I won’t lie to you - we’ve got a big problem with illegals here, though it’s nowhere near as bad as California. For one thing, our new Governor is doing ten times more to interdict illegal border crossers than Rick Perry ever did. It’s having an impact, but we need much stronger medicine.
For all our sakes, I hope and pray that Donald Trump is our next president, because he has made it his signature mission to build an impenetrable barrier along our southern border, and eject every illegal in the country. Above all else, it’s why the people made him the nominee.
I live near Austin, and my wife is from Silicon Valley. The two are no more similar than Silicon Valley is similar to New Delhi. Even the airports are very different. SFO approaches are mostly over water, AUS’s are all over dry land. The only thing similar is the traffic - both are like New Delhi. Austin is proudly weird, Silicon Valley is just nuts.
It was not always that way in California, and so to it will not always be the way you think it is now in Texas. Sure, you still can muster up enough votes to keep the GOP running the show at the state level, but that's going to change, and in point of fact it's changing day by day. It will start, if it hasn't already with Mexican RAT-run counties ( and electing carpebagging turds like George P. Boosh). So enjoy what you have, while you still can. I never thought CA would go RAT either. Unless we get Trump for president, you can pretty well kiss Texas current politics goodbye. Your only avenue to preserve Texas will be to secede.
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