Posted on 11/15/2012 11:01:23 AM PST by far sider
The state of Texas votes Republican because it doesn't agree with what Northern liberals want to do. Take those Northern liberals out of the picture and what Texas voters want to do will change.
I wouldn't be surprised if an independent Texas looked more or less like the country it decided to leave. That's what happens. Given enough time, independence movements make government stronger, rather than weaker. We revolted against Britain and the taxes Parliament imposed on us and developed a government that taxed us more than the British ever did.
People just love to look at the CSA as though it were some anti-government movement, when it was a government that was at least as repressive as any other American government. Ireland revolted against England to go its own way in the world, but decades after British influence were thrown off Ireland is more European and less "Irish" than it was in the past.
Maybe I'm rambling, but politics has to do with a balance of forces and tendencies. Remove one force and you'd be surprised what the new balance will be. When the welfare state isn't seen some alien Northern thing, Southerners or Texans might take to it more than a lot of people think now.
I appreciate your instructional and cautionary comments. We need to analyze where the exit is from some of these alluring theme park rides we contemplate.
Burke told France that a Napoleon was their future but none agreed at the time.
“Maybe I’m rambling, but politics has to do with a balance of forces and tendencies. Remove one force and you’d be surprised what the new balance will be. When the welfare state isn’t seen some alien Northern thing, Southerners or Texans might take to it more than a lot of people think now”
Perhaps...in two hundred years...by then it would be time for some other new revolution.
So you’re on for the bet?
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