Secession is Occurring, Part 1

By John R. “Buck” Surdu

I wrote this series of articles in 2021, when AFNN was hosted on a different platform. With the midterms on the horizon, I have decided to blow the dust off these articles, updated them, and present them again. Please share widely.

Part 1: Redrawing Boundaries, Refugee Migration, and Disunity

This multi-part article will not attempt to make a case for or against secession. A part of me will be deeply saddened if that occurs. Another part of me will be relieved to be separated from Blue America. Mostly I don’t 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 of our eyes, that we are becoming two very different countries no longer united under a common flag, culture, or 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 shared 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 the government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The second is the 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, and 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 investigate the shenanigans and “irregularities properly,” Texas legislators initiated a study to consider secession. I argue that secession is already occurring. 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 creating two distinctly different countries. I will discuss redrawing state lines, refugee migration, and unequal treatment under the law.

Redrawing Lines and Creating New States

In 2021, five counties in Washington State, fed up with the domination of the woke in the cities, have petitioned to join Idaho. The effort continues. 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 correct answer, and there are Constitutional and political issues to be resolved to create new states (it might be easier for portions of California to join other states). Still, this initiative and Governor Newsom’s recall election indicated a growing dissatisfaction with the ruling elitists. (Of course, feuding among Republicans in California instead of proposing a single, strong candidate just about guaranteed that Newsome would survive the recall! And now he has aspirations for the White House.)

Although they have taken a back seat to the Inflation Exacerbation Act and Build Back Broker, under the Biden Administration, proposals to make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states have gained traction. The ruling party wants 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 intentionally set it up the way it is — not a state — 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.

Suppose it is essential to pander to DC residents’ “taxation without representation” claims. In that case, the better answer is to give most of DC back to Maryland, like Alexandria and Arlington were given back to Virginia. 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 his actions and everything he says increase disunity, the recent speech in Philadelphia when he called half the nation “semi-fascist.” 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? In 2021 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. Like refugees from Venezuela, they have seen first-hand the communist utopias espoused by AOC and Bernie Sanders.) The Trump Administration (and I was 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 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 sending them to sanctuary cities that 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. He says he will have to build his own wall. Arizona is creating a wall from shipping containers. Vice Prostitute Harris, Biden’s “border czar,” hasn’t even bothered to visit the border more than once and assess the carnage her boss created. The Biden junta continues to blame Trump for the border crisis and claims they are addressing “root causes.” Can someone provide a single example of a positive policy enacted by the Biden administration? The Federal government is providing no assistance to Red governors struggling to respond to the Biden crisis. 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]

Florida has sent troops and other support to Texas and Arizona. 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.

The Department of Injustice has gone to great lengths to demonstrate one set of laws and rules for the ruling elitists and the Leftists and another for the rest of us “deplorables.” Whether it is objectively brazen attacks on Premier Biden’s political enemies; January 6^th rioters vs. BLM rioters, not enforcing laws to protect Supreme Court Justices; working with social media tech tyrant billionaires to censor conservative speech; fabricated Russia collusion vs. real Hunter Biden crimes; persecution of Trump’s family, lawyers, and former staff; the raid on Mar a Lago; or myriad other examples, the ruling elitist are above the law. Two months after the banana republic raid in Mar a Logo to persecute Biden’s political rival, PJ Media reported that Saint Obama has admitted to holding classified materials in an abandoned furniture warehouse!

The Obama Foundation agreés to transfer up to three million three hundred thousand dollars ($3,300,000) to the National Archives Trust Fund (NATF) to support the move of classified and unclassified Obama Presidential records and artifacts from Hoffman Estates to NARA-controlled facilities that conform to the agency’s archival storage standards for such records and artifacts, and for the modification of such spaces. The first transfer of $300,000 was already made on August 9, 2018. An additional interim transfer will be made within 180 days of that date. Subsequent payments are subject to the negotiation of terms of the digitization process and museum operations.

What?! No raid? No rifling through Michelle’s underwear drawers? I’ll bet you didn’t hear that on Communist News Network or The View!

It is permissible for the Biden Junta to send planeloads of illegal immigrants all over the country to unsuspecting and unprepared communities. When Red governors send volunteers to Blue “sanctuary” jurisdictions, the federal government raises the specter of “human trafficking” and “kidnapping.” When Biden’s administration throws illegal immigrants into the streets in Texas, it is okay, but when Florida transports them to the Martha’s Vinyard “sanctuary,” the virtue-signaling, Leftist liars used the National Guard to evict them within 24 hours. So, do we have a set of laws, policies, and norms, or a different one for Red America and Blue America?

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.” It has been reported that 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) 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 more restrictive than Georgia’s law. (By the way, the midterm elections showed that these laws did not disenfranchise minority voters!). He also encouraged Major League Baseball to boycott the entire state of Georgia. (He later lied and said he didn’t encourage MLB to move.). 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 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 persisted 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 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 — 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 a good education in civics and the real world, not the recipient of a useless degree from a woke university.) Biden and the radicals believe that specific preferred demographics must be “more equal,” and others (primarily 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 hard to divide us.

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 funds to help Washington State recover from a storm or fire. Still, 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, raid, dox, swat, bully, or riot.

I have asserted that we are becoming two distinctly different nations, no longer united behind a standard view of civics (which is primarily untaught in our schools these days), common culture, and shared institutions. Increasingly Red America feels disenfranchised and apart from the ruling class in DC, their media stooges, and the Blue States. Other than language, I no longer feel I live in the same country as someone from the Blue states. 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 powerful Leftists exploit crises to oppress the people.