11-12-2016, 12:22 AM
(11-10-2016, 08:05 PM)Danilynn Wrote: Strange, I remember in November of 2012, a whole lot of petitions by Southern states to leave or Exit were bandied about. Then it was called traitorous, whiny, sour grapes, and a whole lot of other unflattering things usually ending in the suffix "ist".
So how come all of a sudden, it is now *ok* for California to want to do it for much the same reasons. Obama certainly didn't jive with most southerners or our values. But now it's ok?
seems like that lovely double standard the liberals have is rearing it's ugly head again.
If it is Treason for the South, it's Treason for ya'll.
Remember your arguments quoting Lincoln? Or how about Obama? "elections have consequences" and his speech on Wednesday about working together with our new President Trump.
The difference is that the Southern states left to protect slavery. Liberal states that leave a fascistic America will do so to preserve the "republican form of government" that the Constitution mandates for the states.
In the Constitutional sense, "republican form of government" means not only no monarchy, but also no form of dictatorship. Paradoxically that might be the defense against a coup -- states deciding that they would rather be independent than follow the coup leader.
America stands a high chance of splintering with Donald Trump as President as he divides Americans on ethnicity and religion, much like Milosevic did in Yugoslavia.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.