This nation has two choices, if we’re to remain a nation (or, potentially, a viable society).
One of them – by far the most radical and traumatic – is secession; from individual states, and maybe from the US itself.
(And no – that wasn’t “settled in 1865” any more than it was settled in 1776. It’s only “illegal” when the secedees have the will to bring the secessionists to heel).
Big media is noting one, fairly welll established, such movement, in greater Oregon:
In the summer of 2015, a chimney sweep in Elgin, Oregon, redrew the map of the American West. “Imagine for a moment Idaho’s western border stretching to the Pacific Ocean,” Grant Darrow wrote in a letter to the editor of his local paper. Rural Oregon, he insisted, should break its ties with the urbanites of Portland and liberals of Salem, and join Idaho. “The political diversity in this state is becoming unpalatable,” he argued. “Rural Oregonians in general and Eastern Oregonians in particular are growing increasingly dismayed by the manner in which Oregon’s Legislature and Oregon’s urban dwellers have marginalized their values, demonized their lifestyle, villainized their resource-based livelihoods, and classified them as second-class citizens at best.”
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In the half decade or so since Darrow’s diatribe, a simple and outlandish idea, percolating in rural Oregon since the 1960s—what if we were just Idaho?—has grown into a grassroots secession movement. Last month, Harney County, in the high desert of eastern Oregon, became the state’s eighth to pass a nonbinding ballot measure supporting Darrow’s proposal. Move Oregon’s Border signs now dot the region’s empty highways, and Mike McCarter, a retired agricultural nurseryman and gun-club owner who runs a group pushing for the boundary reshuffle, travels the state in a bright-red trucker hat bearing the slogan. “We don’t care to move, because we’re tied to our land here,” he told me recently. “So why not just allow us to be governed by another state?” He mentioned a supporter so certain that her property will become part of Idaho that she already flies its state flag on her lawn. “We’re going to be Idaho,” she told him.
The movement has passed in nearly every county in which it’s gone to the ballot. As the article points out, it seems unlikely the Idaho legislature will accept the new border (which would drive Idaho’s western border to the Pacific – much less Oregon’s California-lite legislature full of unicorn-chasing feebs.
Let’s see – urban lotus-eaters, out of touch with and imposing their dystopian vision on the rest of the state, from a riot-torn city full of people who love central planning? Sounds familiar.
The second option – getting serious about Federalism, checks and balances, and enumerated, divided power, again – would be hypothetically simpler. And, sometimes, I think it would lead just as quickly to mass secession, as Big Left decided to hit the exits.
In a sense this is happening already if one looks at population loss from blue states, gain by red states. Voting with their feet. I call it the Escape from New York solution. If you’ve never seen the movie, you ought to.
golfdoc makes a great point. In fact, California has lost so many people that they lost one congressional seat. A friend of mine, that still hasn’t escaped from there, tells me that if they lose about 25,000 more, they’ll lose another one. Both New York and New Jersey have to at least be closing in on losing some.
Let’s Go Brandon!
Obama saw to the “retirement” of >30k officers & NCOs during his reign, replacing them with a corps more ideologically sound, Slow Joe is finishing the purge of the Officer Corps. The apparent result: the good General Milley is openly planning to deploy troops inside the USA to quell coming insurrections and coups. These insurrections and coups will happen when it becomes clear to the Blue City/States that the secessionists have control of the majority of the nation’s arable land, water, and natural resources.
Yeah, “people” have been leaving Northern, and West coast, leftist shithole states…and dragging their trash with them into Southern states.
Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis and Dallas have become shithole cities in every sense of the word. Tampa St. Pete and Orlando are well on the way.
Hmmm… Redraw MN border to extend Dakotas eastbound, leaving the slim Rochester – MSP – Duluth (Sorry Twin Harbors) strip along 35/60 as MN. It just might work.
Nevermind! Twin Harbors is safe, it is north of Duluth… phew…
Every time the pendulum swings far enough to threaten the status quo, a (blue or red) wave appears to calm things down…it’s almost like someone is choreographing it.
So, next year, the reprobate leftists will get kicked to the curb, Pedo Joe and Kameltoe will get put into the box.
“Conservative patriots” will march around, MAGA hats will be pulled out of closets, and the victorious GOP will not do a fucking thing to stem the flow of illegals, or send them back. They will confirm every 100 IQ judicial candidate BLM sends down the pipe.
They’ll add a few more trillions to the national debt, and why the fuck not? It’s just paper, and the fed has lots of ink.
And on we go, for another few years.
The one thing these smoothing actions fail to do, however, is stop the rot happening in leftist cities and states. Oregon and Washington are solid right wing when you get 50 miles from any urban area. The anger is boiling.
Texas is fighting for it’s life as leftist trash flows in from every shithole, and immediately sets out to spread the disease. The anger is boiling.
The status quo is untenable. The fight is coming.
New York lost just enough to *barely* prevent MN from losing one seat.
This time.
“The status quo is untenable. The fight is coming.”
I firmly believe it.
“ A mother was able to pull her toddler from her vehicle Tuesday morning before three teens stole it at gunpoint in St. Paul’s Crocus Hill neighborhood.
Authorities later arrested a 19-year-old man and a juvenile male in Minneapolis who were said to have a history of auto theft and car jackings, and a 17-year-old male near the University of Minnesota with a record of robbery and weapons arrests.”
Given the ages, it’s clear none of these feral, black thugs did any time for their previous armed attacks. Sounds like it was a miracle they didn’t kill someone this time, but you can bet they’ll get another shot at it soon.
This is the justice system that the leftists have put in place. It’s not a coincidence they’re turning these animals loose again and again; they’re doing exactly what the leftists want them to do.
You’ll get no help from the cops, or the courts. If you take action to protect yourself, you’ll end up in prison, and if you move your family out of the battle zone, it’s because you’re a racist.
I had an apartment in Austin TX in the 90’s, doing a long term project. It was an absolutely great town…so much fun. But I was concerned about the ocean of Californium scum that was washing in from Silicone Valley, bringing all that comes with them.
They turned the city government left in the early 2000’s. Today, Austin is a lost city. And it’s the same cast of characters involved; black criminals and their White, leftist enablers.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/investigations/defenders/austin-crime-rate-population-growth/269-4bf6284e-6c23-45b4-9fdf-1f8328d30b64
People are not going to put up with this much longer.
This is really an urban-rural divide.
The Leftists in the cities, which are also the locus of state government power, refer to the people in the rural parts of their state in language identical to the words the old, evil colonizers used to justify their rule over other nations: we have legitimate interests out there that we need to protect, we are protecting the rights of our people against those other people, we are bringing them the blessings of civilized rule, etc.
MP – the Liberals’ Burden.