Posted on 12/12/2020 5:12:36 PM PST by conservative98
It’s ultimately about the fact that for a country to hold together there need to be a lot of shared values. If half the country believes in the values that made America successful in the first place while the other half of the country is demanding to live in some sort of atheistic socialist utopia that hates everything those other people believe in and stand for, we have what is known in a marriage as irreconcilable differences. Once our value systems are that far apart, there is no such thing as a win/win situation. This is why the standard political strategy for both sides is now to refuse to work with the other side as much as possible in hopes that the public will blame the people in charge for the inaction. Cooperation between both sides collapses because anything one side favors is considered to be taking the country in the wrong direction by the other side.
Quite frankly, if the country were more easily geographically divided up as it was in the Civil War, the nation may have already broken apart. That doesn’t mean that’s a good thing or that it has to go that way, but it does mean people should be much more concerned about this possibility than they seem to be today. The success we enjoy today is largely the result of the work, culture, and foresight of previous generations of Americans. There are absolutely no guarantees that we will continue to live in a country that is strong, prosperous, free, or even together as a nation in the next few years or decades to come. That depends on all of us across the ideological spectrum, which given the state of the country over the last few years, should scare the hell out of everyone.
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I’m in Florida....ready to secede.
F*ck that noise- Nobody’s going anywhere...for a while yet.
Just remember, folks, America’s breadbasket is red.
Bongino, BINGO!!!
Ultimately, all we would be doing is kicking the can down the road and not addressing the actual rot. Whatever dream republic utopia we think we’d gain would eventually be overrun by the same parasites and cities.
I have agreed with that statement for quite a while.
Phuck secession
We shouldnt give up a gdam inch of this place to libtard socialists.
You think we’ll be able to live next to them peaceably? You think they will be placated?
Have none of us learned anything about their natures?
Trending?
Any suggestions?
The thing is that once you get out of the corrupt megapolitan areas, you do have people sharing the same sorts of general values. Once you cut these areas out, New York’s Central Leatherstocking area or Ogdensburg is red like many parts of Texas, Michigan, California, Virginia, etc.
The secession idea is idiotic. It didn’t work in the 19th century and it would work even less now.
We simply have to dig in and fight for our ideals...and the Constitution. They’ll attack, but they won’t be able to drive us out.
Not exactly true. California is the top agricultural producer and produces almost twice as much as number 2. Minnesota and Illinois are also very high on the list.
More likely a “soft” civil war.
Or perhaps we could use the term Social War as was used in the old Roman Empire.
States will being to simply ignore the edicts of FedGov. This already started with sanctuary cities under Trump, so turnabout is fair play.
Gun ban? Thanks, but no thanks. We won’t enforce it. Mandatory Critical Race Theory? Nah, we’re good.
#12 posted on 12/12/2020, 8:52:48 AM by Flick Lives (#resist)
And the Colorado river runs through Red States before it gets to California where without it SoCal would be a dust bowel. Can you say The Trump Dam? I bet you can!
That depends on all of us across the ideological spectrum, which given the state of the country over the last few years, should scare the hell out of everyone.
Chris Plante (iHeart / smart-radio) makes the most sense why this "ideological spectrum" exists: The MSM are committing omission—while spoon-feeding their lies across the airwaves.
Case in point: Hunter Biden's laptop.
I'm not worried about being driven out. I'm worried about having to live like someone in the former USSR.
Give me liberty, or give me death! Like Patrick Henry.
Also, I'm 70. The threat of a life sentence means less each year.
“ More likely a “soft” civil war.”
More like a Brexit, only quicker with less humbug.
It will be Secession like in the 1860s. One side just wants to be left alone. The other side wants to have control over everyone.
If the Left states secede, the Right states will be happy.
If the Right states secede, the Left states will try to subjugate them.
Seem my comment about where most if the water comes from to water those crops. We could sell them water by the spoonful after we build the Trump Dam and Water Reclamation Project on the Colorado River.
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