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2017-02-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

Pat Buchanan: Is secession a solution to cultural war?

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-24 08:43|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Secession doesn't allow CTRL-LEFT folks to control the rest of the country. They can live in their own liberal paradise but without that control they are unfulfilled.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-02-24 10:43|| 2017-02-24 10:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Please, please, please don't let Kalipr0nia secede. If Trump has to send federal troops to quash a rebellion then so be it. Deport the illegals and prosecute the corrupt donkeycrat politicians first.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-02-24 11:34|| 2017-02-24 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Eleven states weren't allowed to secede 150 years ago. The slave-free cultural war was settled the hard way. Precedent's set. Live with it.

Posted by Fred 2017-02-24 12:22|| 2017-02-24 12:22|| Front Page Top

#4 ...but the Czech and Slovak republics separated peacefully. I know, something really really rare in human history.

On another website I read a posting where a Californista said they'd get their multi-gender bath rooms there, but 'felt' for all those in other states that wouldn't. Hey, that's how you got Trump. Obama's dictate wasn't about tolerance, it was about subordination. Note well, flyover country doesn't want to be dictated to by LA, SanFran, NYC, or DC. That is exactly the problem.

What you probably really need is the creation via the Amendment process of independent city states. See - Singapore. Of course Singapore is not diverse and has a very self disciplined society.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-24 12:52|| 2017-02-24 12:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Wasn't that why the Constitution left so much power to the states?

But that was before it became a living document.

Posted by Bobby 2017-02-24 13:01|| 2017-02-24 13:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Exactly correct Bobby.

And this goes along with RJS's without that control they are unfulfilled. Without the ultimate power of centralization the left cannot be the totalitarians they want to be.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-24 13:17|| 2017-02-24 13:17|| Front Page Top

#7 This is why we really need an investigation into voter fraud in the last election. Conservative estimates are that 12 million illegal aliens reside in the United States but it's probably more like 20 million. The sad fact is that nobody knows for sure. But with even 12 million it is not too much to speculate that at least three million of them participated in the election last November. I'd go so far as to speculate that there were three million illegal participants in November's election right here in California. That's what Moonbeam and the Democrats want. That's why they scream bloody murder every time somebody says you should have some kind of ID, any kind of ID let alone proof of citizenship, before voting. Eliminate the voter fraud in California and you might find all this talk about secession fades away into the background.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-02-24 14:19|| 2017-02-24 14:19|| Front Page Top

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