Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Prattville Dragoons Commander's Column for November 2020 - Sectional Acrimony Brings Rise in Predictions of Secession

 I have spent the past few days deliberately staying away from all main stream media news feeds.  The lead up to the November 3rd elections with the preposterous polling has again proven the slant and bias of the MSM as the inevitability of a progressive socialist tsunami and takeover was irrefutably illustrated by insurmountable Dem leads in all the polls.  And now we find ourselves two days later still awaiting results which for some reason in the 21st century with computerized balloting is an excruciatingly long process with absentee votes to seemingly appear from thin air and the backs of automobile trunks with secretive tallying.  It appears the Presidential race is still undecided days after the polls closed with reports varying hour by hour.  The Senate races appear to be somewhat more definitive with the GOP retaining slim control in what has been described as a firewall against the increasingly left leaning House.  This election cycle has been described as the most important of our lifetimes. 

There is a stark contrast between the platforms of the GOP espousing a robust capitalist economic policy with low taxes and deregulation as opposed to the Democrats advertised massive New Green Deal plans and promised $4.7 trillion tax increase.  In response to the Republicans confirming Amy Coney Barrett as Trumps latest Supreme Court appointment, the Democrats have fielded ideas to pack the court, creating additional seats to fill with liberal justices and to push for statehood for the liberal Washington DC enclave and for Puerto Rico.  The former is a direct assault on the Constitutional concepts of equal and separate branches of government. The latter would be an attempt to secure for the foreseeable future, a Democrat majority in the legislative branch and a far more difficult hurdle for conservatives in the electoral college in Presidential elections.  Dem Senator Barbara Boxer in 2017 even introduced legislation to eliminate the electoral college and current Dems have further pushed this radical agenda ( https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/politics/senate-democrats-electoral-college-constitutional-amendment/index.html) which would destroy the protections our founders put  in place to prevent sectional dominance in the United States government. 

Even still, with the population centers of California and New York disproportionately affecting the results of nationwide elections and the real threat of additional liberal states or moving to a strict popular voting process, what does this current election cycle and political climate bode for the future of our country.  In 1860 the threat of additional non-slave states being added to the country from the western territories was a primary impetus for the secession of the Southern states.  They viewed that as a political strategy to ensure Republican political dominance and along with the increased tariffs (taxes) promised by the Republicans in their election platform to build industries and railroads centered in the North, the destruction of the Southern economic system and way of life.  The Democrats today are promising massive tax hikes, the appropriation of the federal treasury to pet green industries and progressive social causes and organizations, and the governmental control of private industries thru massive regulations.  They openly espouse the further infringement of Constitutional rights including the right to bear arms and religious liberty and freedom of speech which their militant fringes have been violently attacking on college campuses and town squares across the country for the past few years.  They dare violate the sanctity of life codifying the right to kill full term babies.

Where does that leave the future of our country?  For the first time since our forefathers fought for Southern state’s independence, the concept of secession has moved to the main stream of debate.  Groups in California (https://yescalifornia.org/) and Texas (https://texassecede.com/?_sm_nck=1) have actively sought referendums on secession.  In this heated recent election cycle, others have predicted the dissolution of the country.  Conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro had a guest on Monday, the day before the election, who predicted  “within six years” the United States would break apart into perhaps 50 separate and sovereign nation states.  The same day, Financial analyst David Rosenberg predicted “the U.S. could find itself broken into more than one country as unrest and acrimony grip the electorate” (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-u-s-could-split-up-gundlach-says-heres-how-hed-invest-for-that-11604352902?reflink=mw_share_twitter)  Apart from the political and economic disagreements rife within our society, for decades we have been battling moral imperatives such as the right to life guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence.  Prattville’s city council just passed a resolution proclaiming the city as “a safe city for pre-born children and lives in all stages.” (https://www.wsfa.com/2020/11/04/prattville-council-passes-first-its-kind-resolution-alabama/?outputType=amp)  Who would have thought such a proclamation necessary but, that resolution wouldn’t have seen the light of day in Pelosi’s San Francisco.  We have been fighting the repercussions of the government removing prayer from the schools for generations now, that and the diminishment of a real education including civics and true history (as well as foundational basic reading and arithmetic).  The result - our nation’s  youth have devolved into ignorant entitled anarchists.  Is the fracturing of the Unites States into perhaps a federated union like the EU a viable solution to preserve state sovereignty and help eliminate the sectional acrimony we have seen explode across our nation?

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