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Thoughts on Secession

Texas Chris Wrote: Nov 28, 2012 11:28 AM
"Nobody's leaving this Union any time soon." But the union is failing. $16T in debt? Massive foreign entanglements? 47% of the population gets a check from Uncle Sam? Untenable. No future. The sooner the Union is dissolved, the better.
Muh fellah Amurricans -- I reproduce the speech patterns our media correlate with conservative thought -- hit looks like we ain't getting out of this here Union, what with secession not legal, way them educated fellers tell it.

Not legal? Rather a bold statement, I would say. Last time anyone attempted formal withdrawal from the United States, something like 125 years ago, the armaments of the United States blocked the path to independence. The Union endured. But that settled only the practical, not the theoretical, side of the question.

Enough said anyway about the Late Unpleasantness of 1861-65. What...

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