Quote from MKTrader:
Yeah, but they'll never do that. The producers (even blue collar types) will remain in the Red States. Those content to live on SSI, faux disability, food stamps, etc. will flood the Blue States. How long will Oprah, Gates, Buffet and most of Hollywood be willing to fund the parasites? My guess is that they'll run to Switzerland or Belize before it's over.
And how many businesses would remain in places where regulations, taxes, unions and violent flash mobs run amok?
It will never happen. Other than a few hippies in Vermont, no one on the Left wants a peaceful secession.
Oh, I'm aware that it will never happen. Until it happens.
If the Left thought it was getting a raw deal from the welfare state, i.e. that its partisans were paying more in than they draw out, the drumbeat for secession would be so loud in the media that nothing else would be heard.
So, by process of deduction, if the Left's partisans aren't getting a raw deal from the welfare state, the Right's partisans must be.
I don't understand why people who are not on the Left go along with the false premise that the United States, in its current political configuration of 50 states governed by one Federal government, is a necessary, rather than historically-contingent, situation.
Even conservatives who worry about national security would have to agree that even in the event of splitting the country in two, the conservative states could field a military which would be world-class relative to any other country's military. Plus, we'd lose the dead-weight of the politically-correct members of the officers class who are using the military as a social experiment.
For anyone who is to the right of Lenin, breaking up the US into at least two countries is a win-win-win.
The sight of watching pseudo-intellectuals like Free Thinker try to keep a country running when the two classes in it are the Oprahs and Warren Buffetts of the world on one side and the New Black Panther Party/La Raza inner-city minority underclass on the other would be hilarious. There isn't enough income redistribution in the world to keep those two demographics from fighting. In the end, Oprah and Warren Buffett and Free Thinker go "bye-bye" and get run over by the advancing inner-city hordes.
Just thinking about it makes me chuckle.
