A firestorm erupted recently when US House Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly espoused the idea of splitting the United States into two sections based on predominant political ideology, the blue and red states. "We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. People saying national divorce is a bad idea because the left will never stop trying to control us literally make the case for national divorce," Greene wrote on Twitter. "Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat's traitorous America Last policies, we are done. The last thing I ever want to see in America is a civil war," she told Sean Hannity. "No one wants that -- at least everyone I know would never want that -- but it's going that direction, and we have to do something about it.” She was promptly lambasted by RINOs like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney who was recently ousted from office in the last election cycle.
It
should be very transparent the rationale and numerous reasons which persist
today which justified and motivated the Southern states’ secession including
generational cultural divisions, a polarized dysfunctional Congress,
unconstitutional executive orders and mandates, and overreaching federal
government. Just as in the 19th century
even before the Southern states’ secession, many states explored the idea of
secession including Yankee Federalists who saw the nation’s wars, imperialist
expansion and economic issues as justification for a split from the newly
formed United States. Thomas DiLorenzo provides an excellent account of this
movement in his essay “Yankee Confederates: New England Secession Movements
Prior to the War Between the States”.
(http://www.ditext.com/dilorenzo/yankee.html)
Today,
state secession movements have grown in California and especially in Texas with
the Texas Nationalist Movement (https://tnm.me/news/political/texit-is-it-illegal-for-texas-to-leave-the-union/)
; citizens broached the idea and lawmakers in Idaho passed a bill supporting
the secession of conservative adjacent portions of Oregon to join Idaho and
similarly in Maryland three counties sought to secede and become a part of more
conservative neighboring West Virginia.
Louisiana
Senator John Kennedy at the recent CPAC didn’t come out and call for secession
or a national divorce in those very words but his rhetoric explaining the
cultural differences and political issues are a marked parallel to the reasons
our ancestors sought and fought for an independent Confederate republic. He said regarding Biden, “I do not hate
anyone. The Biden administration sucks.
You measure anyway you want.
COVID. The economy. Inflation.
The national debt. The border.
Crime. Cancel culture. Treating parents like domestic
terrorists. Afghanistan. Our energy independence. Now lost.
President Biden has been spectacularly awful.” Would the Democrats of 1860 produced a
similar litany of reasons for an exodus from a Lincoln Presidency? Senator Kennedy went on, "The truth is
that Americans aren't perfect. But the
other side is crazy. Now, Americans do not deserve to be governed by deeply
weird ... people who hate George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln,
Dr. Seuss, and Mr. Potatohead, who hyperventilate on their yoga mats if you use
the wrong pronoun. They think kids should be able to change their gender at
recess ... and think they are better than us."
What
was that, we “do not deserve to be governed” by people who are so ideologically
different? Apart from the cultural
upheaval in our country, think of the thousands of your tax dollars which have
been misappropriated and redistributed at the federal level for foreign aid to
third world corrupt governments, weapons to prosecute wars on other continents
for which the United States has little interest or relevancy, the removal of
God from the public classrooms while allowing warped gender ideologies and
Project 1619 racial indoctrination of our children thru the Department of
Education, the Department of Energy picking winners and losers in the energy
sector providing subsidies for wind and solar farms and electric vehicles while
shuttering coal plants and mines and raising your cost of home electricity and
the gasoline for your ICE automobile, and the IRS and FBI weaponized to investigate and prosecute select
political opposition.
The
Yankee Confederates, the Southern states who seceded and formed the Confederate
States of America and growingly, the 21st century canceled and marginalized
citizens of the flyover regions of these United States hold many of the same
justifications for a secession movement.
As DiLorenzo highlighted in his essay, “Their cause was virtually
identical to the southern Confederacy's: they were defending the principles of
states' rights and self-government from an overbearing federal government. The
(Yankee Confederates) condemned the Jefferson administration as being plagued
by "falsehood, fraud, and treachery," which induced "oppression
and barbarity" and "ruin among the nations." They believed that the South -- especially
Virginia -- was gaining too much wealth, power, and influence, and was using
that influence against New England politically. Their complaints are virtually
identical to John C. Calhoun's concerns, decades later, about the unjust
regional impacts of excessive federal power.”
Today it is these New England and left-coast states and more
specifically the woke urbanites residing therein who are wielding too much
wealth and power and influence and using that against the conservative,
Christian, red-state, blue-collar hard working class. Paraphrasing Senator Kennedy’s CPAC speech,
“(They) think they are better than us.
(We) do not deserve to be governed by deeply weird people who hate (our
heritage).”
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