Posted on 06/08/2017 9:05:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At an increasing rate, Americans separate themselves into culturally and ideologically homogeneous enclaves.
Last week there were two telling incidents — one small, the other more consequential — that spoke volumes about the state of our national life. Let’s start small. Over in Seattle, in the midst of a debate over juvenile justice, a city-council member invoked his “Republican friends” as a symbol of the broad-based agreement that incarceration policies need to change. One of his colleagues, Kshama Sawant, snapped back with the proud declaration that she didn’t have any Republican friends. The crowd cheered.
Sure, it’s but one small incident, but consider something bigger. The state of California is in the process of taking a series of political steps that are not only cementing its status as a progressive enclave, it’s stumbling toward its own foreign policy. After Donald Trump withdrew America from the Paris climate agreement, California governor Jerry Brown rushed to fill the void. California is touting its collaborations with China to combat global warming. Here’s Brown, in reporting by the Sacramento Bee:
“It is a little bold to talk about the China–California partnership as though we were a separate nation, but we are a separate nation,” Brown said of the state, with nearly 40 million residents and the world’s sixth-largest economy. “We’re a state of mind. I include Silicon Valley, I include the environmental activism, the biotech industry, agriculture. This is a place of great investment in innovation.”
Indeed, California has such a different view of the relationship between citizen and state, it’s virtually seceding from the Constitution, overriding the First Amendment time and again for the sake of “social justice.” And now its legislature is even taking the first steps to implement a $400 billion single-payer health plan....
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Can we sell it?
Ask Yamamoto?
You'll never understand little 'r' republicanism.
That is stupid and you know it. If California secede what country is going to invade? There are plenty of pros and cons to secession but the one you used is plain ignorant.
you’re making me work...
google translate to the rescue...
Religious Duty
to hell with Ryan...
You're absolutely right about that.
>California secedes. How do the “infiltrate”?
With an army at your back to drive the libs to mexico.
They can also vote with their guns.
What would happen in the independent nation of California would be of no concern to me.
Don’t mind me if I don’t give a damn what happens to you, either.
That's the whole point because not meddling in each others affairs is the way to go.
You that someone is all out of intellectual ammo, when they resort to insulting the other party.
You lose. Thanks for playing.
“That’s the whole point because not meddling in each others affairs is the way to go.”
Trust me; if you were on fire I would not meddle in your affairs.
Nice.
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