Secession is Occurring

(This article is being republished on AFNN since we moved to this new platform, because the old posts are difficult to locate anymore.  I have updated it slightly.)

Part 1: Redrawing Boundaries, Refugee Migration, and Disunity

This multi-part article will not attempt to make a case for or against secession. There is a part of me that will be deeply saddened if that occurs. There is another part of me that will be relieved to be separated from Blue America. Mostly I don’t even want to travel to or through Blue states or spend any of my money supporting them. This article asserts that secession is occurring de facto in front our eyes, that we are becoming to very different countries no longer united under a common flag, culture, constitution.

We are becoming two distinctly different Dis-United States. One is an America based on our Constitution, institutions, law and order, freedoms, common view of civics, commonly interpreted history, and common culture. The other is an America transformed into a Leftist, woke, Marxist repressive regime in which all our institutions must be destroyed to rehabilitate an inherently evil nation. The first is government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The second is government of the woke, by the ruling class, over the people. The first view ascribes divinely granted freedoms. The second doles out subsistence to taxpayers through the largess of the unaccountable (and largely incompetent) ruling class. The first emphasizes family, good choices, personal responsibility. The second emphasizes victimhood, blaming non-preferred demographics for one’s own poor decisions, and use of the intelligence and law enforcement agencies to repress the people. After the embarrassing farce that was the 2016 election and the unwillingness of the ruling class to properly investigate the shenanigans and “irregularities,” Texas legislators initiated a study to consider secession. I argue that secession is already occurring, and in this article, I will provide examples of how the differences between Blue and Red states and the migration of people from one to the other is in fact creating two distinctly different countries. Part 1 will talk about redrawing state line, refugee migration, and unequal treatment under the law.

Redrawing Lines and Creating New States

Five counties in Washington State, fed up with the domination of the woke in the cities have petitioned to join Idaho. Several times, including in 2016, an initiative to split California into six states has been proposed. I don’t know if six states are the right answer, and there are clearly Constitutional and political issues to be resolved to create new states (it might be easier for portions of California to join other states), but this initiative — along with Governor Newsom’s recall election — indicate a growing dissatisfaction with the ruling elitists. (Of course, feuding among Republicans in California instead of proposing a single, strong candidate will just about guarantee that Newsome will survive the recall!)

At the same time, under the Biden Administration, proposals to make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states have gained traction. This is a clear attempt by the ruling party to add four more Leftist senators to guarantee a majority in perpetuity. There are many good reasons NOT to make DC a state, not the least of which is that the Constitution set it up the way it is — not a state — intentionally, and those dead white guys were pretty smart. I encourage you to read this whole article, but this excerpt is quite good regarding creating DC as a state:

In addition to being almost certainly unconstitutional, the bill appears to be motivated by power rather than principle. If Congress were truly concerned about the taxation of Washingtonians without real congressional representation, there are ways to resolve the current dilemma without benefitting only one major political party. Congress could, by ordinary legislation, return the existing lands in the District back to the states from which they were ceded, or by constitutional amendment provide that the citizens of the federal District shall be treated, for purposes of federal elections, as citizens of the state from which the land on which they reside was ceded. Yet Congress is choosing the path that, if it were constitutional, would exclusively benefit the Democratic Party.

If it is really necessary to pander to DC residents’ “taxation without representation” claims, the better answer is to give most of DC back to Maryland, like Alexandria and Arlington were given back to VA. Turn what is left of DC into a National Park. (I would also give Puerto Rico five years to prepare for independence and cut loose that albatross.)

Unequal Treatment by the Disunifier-in-Chief

Premier Biden claims to want “unity,” but actions he takes and everything he says increases disunity. How is vilifying some governors and some states unifying? How is it unifying to pass legislation that illegally excludes some groups because of their skin color (like excluding white farmers from COVID relief)? How is lying about some states’ voting laws and encouraging companies to boycott certain states unifying? Recently the administration held a meeting with state governors to discuss strategies to fight and prevent forest fires, but Republican governors from affected states were not invited. I guess that’s unifying in some fantasy world.

The Biden Administration during its orgy of authoritarian executive orders in his first few days in office, created the humanitarian and legal crises on our borders. (Illegal immigrants coming across the Mexican border are good, but the Secretary of DHS says those fleeing Cubans are not welcome, because they are generally conservative, and like refugees from Venezuela, they have seen first-hand the communist utopias espoused by AOC and Bernie.) The Trump Administration (and I am no Trump fan) allowed reporters on the border, but not Premier Biden. How is the way Biden excludes the media (even though they mostly toss him softball questions) or refuses to take questions unifying? More importantly, Biden’s stooges moved planeloads of illegal immigrants — unvaccinated and untested for COVID and with no valid ID that US citizens are required to have — to states like Tennessee that were unequipped to handle the thousands of illegals that the Biden policies have allowed into the country. The Biden Administration recently released at least 50,000 illegal immigrants into the US without even assigning them court dates. I guess it is unifying to ship illegals to Red states that don’t want them instead of shipping them to sanctuary cities who claim to want them.

Texas has been forced to take action that the administration refuses to take to protect itself from the Biden-created immigration crises. Because the federal government is unable or unwilling to enforce federal laws, Texas governor Abbott has declared a state of emergency in his state and says he will have to build his own wall. Vice Prostitute Harris, Biden’s “border czar,” hasn’t even bothered to visit the border and assess the carnage her boss created. The Federal government is providing no assistance to Red governors struggling to respond to the Biden crisis. In fact, The Daily Wire reported that the situation is so dire that,

Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey put out a joint call in June requesting aid from other states in securing the southern border. A handful of GOP-led states have responded to the governors’ request, such as South Dakota and Florida, sending National Guard soldiers to the border states to aid in border enforcement. [my emphasis added]

Red Governors are banding together to respond to a crisis that Premier Biden created, while Blue Governors are idle. That is unifying, I suppose. It is a sure sign that we are becoming two nations: Red states vs. the federal government and Blue states.

In Ohio, Sherriff Richard Jones, who has had a contract with the federal government to house illegal immigrants since 2003 has terminated that contract, saying,

With the crisis at the border getting worse, it concerns me that the feds will ship detainees to my facility, then release them to the streets of my community under some technicality. It’s better to just end this arrangement now than to let that happen. Unlike this current administration, I’m still a firm believer that our government should strictly enforce the immigration laws and I will continue to promote that stance at every opportunity.

The Governor of Iowa refused to accept planeloads of illegal immigrant children foisted on them by the Biden administration, saying, “This is not our problem. This is the president’s problem. He’s the one that has opened the border, and he needs to be responsible for this, and he needs to stop it.” Most recently it has been reported that the Biden is using military aircraft to fly illegal immigrants to undisclosed locations to unleash them on unsuspecting communities.

Biden made pronouncements and characterizations of the new election integrity law in Georgia (and other states) that were so egregious that even the Washington Pravda gave him “four Pinocchios.” He even launched a weaponized Department of Justice to sue Georgia over the new law. While he characterized the Georgia laws as “Jim Crow 2.0,” Biden ignored voting laws in Blue states, including Delaware, that are as, or more, restrictive than Georgia’s law. He also encouraged Major League Baseball to boycott the entire state of Georgia. So, criticizing Red governors and holding them to different standards than Blue governors is unifying? Coercing businesses to boycott Red states is unifying? Launching the DOJ to attack states that are passing legislation to guarantee election integrity is unifying? In Texas, Governor Abbott had to call a special session of the legislature to bring back Democrats who walked out rather than vote on election reform and dozens of other issues. This divisive rhetoric from the White House has resulted in tit-for-tat silliness like Georgia taking Coke machines out of its legislative building and Surry County, NC, banning Coke machines in government buildings.

And despite being exposed as a liar over Georgia’s voting law, Biden persists in the lies.

The Biden administration is not afraid to throw itself behind other Democrats who repeatedly claim voting laws are “racist” attempts to suppress minority voters so the GOP can win more elections. After Biden flip-flopped over a hypocritical attempt by politicians and corporations to boycott Georgia over its newest election law, Vice President Kamala Harris cheered Texas Democrats for abandoning their post in the Lone Star State to chug beers on a private plane and toot their own horns about what a “sacrifice” it was.

The real issue at stake is that the Left and Democrats have taken for granted homogenous minority voting habits; however, during the 2020 election “[President Trump] picked up six percentage points among black men, five percentage points among black and Hispanic women, and four percentage points among Hispanic men.” Unlike Biden, Trump didn’t poll well with the dead. The inflammatory and divisive rhetoric from the man who claimed he wanted unity is really about convincing those minority voters that Democrats are entitled to their votes. We have an America in which “if you don’t know who to vote for, you ain’t black” and where blacks are expected to vote for Democrats because of their skin color, and we have another America in which people are allowed to vote based on issues, not lies. In Blue America a black who votes for a Republican — or, heaven forbid, is a Republican — he is an “Uncle Tom,” “sellout,” or “race traitor.”

As Biden, his media stooges, Hollywood elitists, career politicians, the unions, the woke, and the deluded (but perhaps I am being redundant) pursue his radical agenda, he is creating two different Americas. Traditional, patriotic, educated Americans believe in equal treatment under the law. (By educated I don’t mean higher education as much as good education in civics and the real world.). Biden and the radicals believe that certain preferred demographics must be “more equal,” and other (mostly white people) must be vilified and blamed for others’ poor choices and lack of initiative. That vilification creates two classes that lead to situations that the Left can exploit to grab more power over the American people. Divided we fall, and the Democrats and the Left are working to divide us very, very hard.

And this is manifested in unequal treatment of states and their governors. States that maintained law and order during the summer of Democrat-endorsed, “mostly peaceful” riots are being punished by having to give money to states and cities that refused to maintain control. I don’t mind using (my) federal money to help Washington State recover from a storm or fire, but I resent giving them money to rebuild a city when they didn’t take prudent action to protect during months of riots — and in many cases endorsed, rationalized, enabled, and supported those riots.

These are examples of two very different views of the world. If Conservatives don’t like something, they don’t do it, change the channel, or walk away. If Leftists don’t like something they want to take it away from others, de-platform speech they don’t like, dox, swat, bully, or riot.

I have asserted that we are becoming two distinctly different nations, no longer united behind a common view of civics (which are largely untaught in our schools these days), common culture, and common institutions. Increasingly Red America feels disenfranchised and apart from the ruling class in DC, their media stooges, and the Blue States. Other than language longer feel that I live in the same country as someone from Blue states. In fact, the way the Left continues to corrupt definitions of terms, I am not sure we even share the same language anymore. In Part 1, I talked about redrawing boundaries, Blue-state refugees, and efforts by the Biden administration to increase disunity and drive a wedge between Blue and Red America. In Part 2, I will discuss manifest clashes of ideology and how the Leftists in power exploit crises to oppress the people.