Oh Secession Shmacession

[Celerity]

The “The United States of America” is taken. Secessionists don’t get to take the nation with them. That’s not how it works.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/oh-secession-shmacession



WASHINGTON, DC – Majorie Taylor Greene is a member of Congress. I wanted to lead with that sentence because her membership in this elite club of 535 politicians illustrates so many of the existential problems facing democracy. It shows how willing some Americans are to line up in support of a shrieking eel just as long as she shrieks the sounds those Americans want to hear. The problem is: when she says things, they can sometimes resonate beyond just idle blurtings. That’s what concerns me about her endorsement of secession. In case you missed it, Greene said the red states should secede from the blue states because something something woke mob. Later, Sean Hannity also made a case for secession, noting that it would result in:

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Sure, the federal government would be smaller – but it wouldn’t be the federal government for the states that seceded. They’d have to start their own government, and good luck with that, morons. By the way, the “The United States of America” is taken. Secessionists don’t get to take the nation with them. That’s not how it works.

Meanwhile, here are a few other things Hannity and Marj should know about secession. The seceded states would be, by definition, separating from the United States, which means they’d be rejecting its Constitution. They’d also be rejecting the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem – to be clear: completely abandoning the United States, its symbology, and its traditions is far worse than taking a knee during the Anthem. In other words, secession is the most extreme rejection of all things American – the very suggestion of it should be defined as profoundly unpatriotic.

Secession would also lead to the balkanization of America. Once secession occurred, and is thus codified as legal among the separatist states, the newly formed red state nation – say, Confederacy Part Two – would subdivide and subdivide under legalized secession until it was reduced to a collection of municipality-sized nations with zero power to defend itself or establish a viable economy. Or let’s say South Carolina decides to secede from Confederacy Part Two, would the new secessionist government go to war to keep South Carolina as part of its fledgling nation? Maybe. Likewise, the remaining parts of the U.S. might also be hesitant to lend economic support, especially if secession leads to another civil war.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Go ahead, separate into red and blue state Countries. I'll join the blue state Country immediately,

taking every dime of my assets with me (and expertise too, etc.), and leave the red states to their own demise. They don't care (red) about any of us anyways, from the way I hear the TV blaring on about mgt's proposal...and by the way, she should be drummed out of Congress immediately. She's proposing an illegal breakup of the US. Kick her a&& out, and kick it hard, because she doesn't deserve anything other than hate.

[usonian]

2. The rest of the story.

Now, take everything ELSE that's missing. That amounts to a damn lot.

"Oh, I didn't think of that "

Well, think of a fishbowl. The fish want the neat gravel all to themselves. Passed on the water.


Enjoy the ride, Marge.