As rights are not granted by the state, an entity that derives its powers from the consent of the governed, the people have the ultimate power to alter or abolish a government that infringes upon the rights of the individual. Once thought unimaginable to modern Americans, the idea of a state or geographical region departing from our federation is now commonly discussed.
“America’s growing political divide,” a collection of words uttered endlessly in all forms of media to describe an escalation of tensions within the United States, has an inevitable consequence. As we have seen with both “red” and “blue” factions, America’s rapid shifts in either political direction have sparked media endorsed violence and overall mitigations of civility.
Your “coup” moment
When a small band of misfits publicly planned and then stormed an intentionally open (1,2) Capitol, they acted off a genuine belief: The America they endorse and reside within has been threatened. While you can disagree with the Trump supporters who “took action” that day, the event should beg a question from all sides: Is there a scenario where you would invade the Capitol?
For those who viewed Trump as “literally Hitler,” would internment camps or reinstitution of formalized segregation cause you to seek a remedy for the violations? If the scientific community becomes even more worried about the impact of climate change, what would be your priority if the government refused to adapt? For conservatives, is there a point where you no longer feel represented enough in our country to impact national/state policy? What if elections switched to online affairs – and the Democrats won 2 consecutive national elections? For both sides, what is your next move if you no longer feel represented and able to non-violently defend your rights in this nation?
How likely is a coup?
In both the American Revolution and Civil War, we saw a geographical region with a distinct culture arrive at the conclusion that their way of life was under severe threat.
A trifecta is a term referring to a scenario where one political party holds the governorship, a majority in the state senate, and a majority in the state house in a state’s government. 80 percent of Americans currently live in a trifecta state, indicating strong policy preferences for the residing populations. With such differing belief systems, the increasing centralization of our government makes each national election a monumentally big deal. An executive, armed to the teeth with executive orders and dependent on the loudest elements of their party, has the ability to drastically impact the lives of those who do not share the same ideology.
Even worse, human contact has been largely replaced with what is found on social media. When a man in a MAGA hat is punched out at a gas station, that video makes its way across America – solidifying the divide and reaffirming negative stereotypes of the “OTHER.”
The bight side of secession
A secession plank in a party platform serves the same function as setting clear boundaries within a relationship. If you’ve ever stated to a partner that infidelity would dissolve the union, you’ve essentially created a secession plank. Coming out of an abusive and English relationship, Thomas Jefferson was keenly reminding future generations of the perpetual danger of tyranny when he included his justification for secession in the first paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence.
In a republic melting under the hot sun of distortion, what harm is there in drawing a line in the sand for the sake of at least symbolic integrity?
Joe Biden is by far the worse president in my lifetime which started with FDR. The whole snake’s nest should be eradicated from government starting at the Oval Office and going down to the last leftist community organizer.
Texas is gonna SECEDE and you remaining US Citizens will have to get in line and pay for oil, natural gas, lubricants, LNG fuel, gasoline, diesel. etc at whatever the rest of the world will have to pay us….or stay in the dark, roast in 100 degree temperatures or freeze in negative temperatures. Texans will build their own Wall with Mexico
and we’ll take care of Texans FIRST. Like or lump it, we don’t care.
Surely, a central government that has absorbed never ending authority over the rights of its citizens to the point where it chooses to ignore the God given will of the people out of pure power might only draw back if it has the genuine fear of a righteous uprising. Hopefully the actuality does not reach that brink but when that central government loses all perspective of its proper position as a creation of the populace to wit it must function at the will of that populace it must respond to the fear of dissolution via revolution. It seems this scenario gets replayed many times in man’s experiment with government.
people (citizens) want to live their lives without intrusion by government telling us how to live them. worse taxing us for the privilege of listening to all their “experts” we will tolerate just so much before we object. it is when government fails to listen to these objections that trouble comes. people like myself. veteran, patriot, and successful at life. believe government having intruded upon my freedoms will find I object. as they continue I and many others objections will take the form of forcefully telling you to listen. when that fails we then move to change the form of our government. so I object. you dont want us to make the changes.————I resist!————Grampa
“The tree of liberty must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God”. Thomas Jefferson.
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry.
WRONG!! The people no longer have the power to abolish an oppressive government! As long as this oppressive government has the ability to print as many counterfeit ballots as they need to win, votes mean nothing. Elections are a subterfuge. A comfortable majority voted for Trump – but look who is in the White House! A confused, senile, inept old man who marches to the drum of the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE! Sabatuers like AOC, Ilhan Omar, and that other traitorous Muslim (can’t think of her name) are being elected to office. After the 2022 elections, they will pack the Supreme Court with six more demoncrats, and they will control EVERYTHING – FOREVER! No one seems to have the authority, courage, or desire to do a damn thing about it!
The great ship America is sinking, and no one wants to patch the hole.
Why do include a Confederate Flag in your headline picture?
It has nothing to do with 2021
Harry Weisberger
Perhaps nothing to do with 2021, Mr. Billings, but everything to do with 2024, especially if legislation institutionizes Democrat vote fraud. In 1861 the South was outvoted, outnumbered and economically dominated by the North. Seeing no alternative, southern states declared independence much the same as the Colonies 75 years before. I believe, unlike many historians including my brother, that slavery was not the primary issue of the civil war. The vast majority of southerners owned no slaves, and only a fraction owned more than three.