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Is a National Split Inevitable?
Townhall.com ^ | December 14, 2020 | Scott Morefield

Posted on 12/14/2020 5:37:04 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/14/2020 5:37:04 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It will be a few blue states, like California, who will be dumping the federal system.


2 posted on 12/14/2020 5:39:36 AM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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To: Kaslin

Endure or emigrate.

Biden exuded anger even when he was way ahead in the polls.


3 posted on 12/14/2020 5:44:16 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaslin
National split?

Now just how would that happen given that China has wrapped its tentacles throughout our country's government, institutions, and businesses?

The only option that remains is counter-revolution.

It's like a cancer that has spread all over the body. It cannot be surgically removed.

4 posted on 12/14/2020 5:44:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Kaslin

Tax slaves will not be allowed freedom .


5 posted on 12/14/2020 5:45:29 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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Never happen.

I could see more of a “financial protest” where entire states, led by their legislature, refuse to pay taxes or something silly like that.

An all out shooting war? Never.


6 posted on 12/14/2020 5:46:54 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Kaslin

It’s not the solution.


7 posted on 12/14/2020 5:49:33 AM PST by iontheball
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To: TangledUpInBlue

It is probably also important for states and counties to simply create sanctuaries for 2nd Amendment rights and also where immigration laws are to be enforced and other such initiatives. Places like Ogdensburg and the Central Leatherstocking area of NY are just as incompatible with NYC as many parts of Texas or Virginia are.


8 posted on 12/14/2020 5:51:49 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: RoosterRedux

“It’s like a cancer that has spread all over the body. It cannot be surgically removed.”

And that is the answer. Even if a movement was put together, there would be so many double agents, a la Barr, Sessions, Matis, etc.

If you really want to turn things around, you fix the schools. If you don’t fix the schools, then watch as America slides and becomes a vassal state of China.


9 posted on 12/14/2020 5:51:59 AM PST by brownsfan (Schools. If we don't fix the schools, nothing else matters.)
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To: Kaslin

Geraldo has come so far since he was a male prostitute for a senator’s wife.
He’s the poster child of the DC-Media Excreta Fountain.


10 posted on 12/14/2020 5:52:08 AM PST by hank ernade
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To: Kaslin

Brother fighting brother.


11 posted on 12/14/2020 5:52:55 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

How in the heck would this happen? I have liberal neighbors. My state went for Trump but my county went for Biden. So just how do you divide up our state and neighborhoods?

I don’t get this thinking.


12 posted on 12/14/2020 5:53:04 AM PST by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: Kaslin

I would like to live in a country where there is true freedom of expression, fairness for both right and left, a press and electronic media that presents facts, and is not just a propaganda machine. A country where one keeps most of the fruits of one’s labor. A place where no politician deliberately keeps one class of people down and poor so as to blame the other party and get votes.

I don’t know where that place might be. Certainly not anyplace on earth.


13 posted on 12/14/2020 5:53:59 AM PST by I want the USA back (I fear my government much much much much more than a virus from china.)
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To: Kaslin

CA is not viable on their own. They get their petrol, water and electricity piped in from other states.


14 posted on 12/14/2020 5:56:11 AM PST by lurk ( )
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To: Kaslin
State session would be a beautiful creative thing, natural, like cell division.


15 posted on 12/14/2020 5:56:44 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

If you have a government pension or depend on Social Security, I highly recommend you find a way not to be dependent.

What happens to a mortgage if the government collapse?
If the government collapse the courts are not legal?


16 posted on 12/14/2020 5:56:49 AM PST by DEPcom (Fight for Trump)
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To: iontheball

It IS the solution.


17 posted on 12/14/2020 5:57:03 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t have a crystal ball, but I think it could go either way. If Trump wins, it will be really interesting, pretty much immediately. And the left does not have the constitution on their side. If Biden is sworn in, there will be a growing festering that will probably reach its Zenith at the 2022 election. That will be the most closely watched election polling in US history. I expect the republicans would clean up. But that is assuming we survive to that point.

If biden is sworn in, the main difference this will have on my life, at first, is that I will carry the “bigger” pistol (Glock 19) with me in the car and the extra magazines, though I have to check the legality of the 33 shot magazines. I may have to leave them at home, depending on the laws of the states I’m driving through.

Other than that, what may impact me is any “new” laws. We live on a quiet 32 acres in rural KY and are really left alone by the government up here. I have not seen a cop anywhere near my house in the nine years we have lived here except when one came by because about $30,000 worth of my neigbor’s cattle broke through the fence and ended up next to my house.

And I burn my garbage.

I was really glad trump ended the mandate, but that is no longer relevant since I’m over 65 now. And my “retirement” is all about owning real estate free and clear and SS, so there are no tax increases for us in the near future. We can afford the $248 a year we currently pay.

If any of this changes significantly, I’ll take a “non-defensive” pose. But in Kentucky it’s too early for that. If I lived in Pennsylvania I might feel differently.


18 posted on 12/14/2020 5:57:13 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Kaslin
A catastrophic event would be required, such as the federal government declaring bankruptcy over the national debt.

And then the next questions would be; who moves from what they consider foreign territory to more acceptable geography, who keeps the existing symbols like the flag, the country name, and the constitution?

Unlike the first Civil War, the next one would include major disruption or very complicated borders. I live about 6 miles from the commonly-defined :Chicago Metropolitan Area". Do I move, or do the liberals move? That is what decides if any split would be peaceful.

19 posted on 12/14/2020 5:57:52 AM PST by Bernard (No tag today. Maybe tomorrow.)
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A catastrophic event would be required, such as the federal government declaring bankruptcy over the national debt.

And then the next questions would be; who moves from what they consider foreign territory to more acceptable geography, who keeps the existing symbols like the flag, the country name, and the constitution?

Unlike the first Civil War, the next one would include major disruption or very complicated borders. I live about 6 miles from the commonly-defined :Chicago Metropolitan Area". Do I move, or do the liberals move? That is what decides if any split would be peaceful.

20 posted on 12/14/2020 5:57:52 AM PST by Bernard (No tag today. Maybe tomorrow.)
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