How America Is Splitting Apart Without Bothering With Civil War

[Origanalist]

Robert Reich (for Reich's long winded rant go here) http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/american-conservative?akid=10554.1083157.n3MBfW&rd=1&src=newsletter853091&t=15&paging=off sees Washington gridlock and the increasing divergence of Red and Blue States as indicators the glue holding the country together is failing. He describes the situation as de facto secession:

The states are diverging sharply on almost every issue you can imagine. ...
Federalism is as old as the Republic, but not since the real Civil War have we witnessed such a clear divide between the states on central issues affecting Americans.

I've always said peaceful secession is the best solution to gridlock.

http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-america-is-splitting-apart-without.html

[Anti Federalist]

It's as if an entire branch of the federal government -- the branch that's supposed to deal directly with the nation's problems, not just execute the law or interpret the law but make the law -- has gone out of business, leaving behind only a so-called "sequester" that's cutting deeper and deeper into education, infrastructure, programs for the nation's poor, and national defense.

The window of opportunity for the president to get anything done is closing rapidly. Even in less partisan times, new initiatives rarely occur after the first year of a second term, when a president inexorably slides toward lame duck status.

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/36729833.jpg

[Anti Federalist]

Secession now.

[Anti Federalist]

First, it leads to a race to bottom. Over time, middle-class citizens of states with more generous safety nets and higher taxes on the wealthy will become disproportionately burdened as the wealthy move out and the poor move in, forcing such states to reverse course. If the idea of "one nation" means anything, it stands for us widely sharing the burdens and responsibilities of citizenship.

We own you, Mundane, no escape is possible.

[AuH20]

Someone doesn't like that we put a brake on the master plan.

[TheTexan]

I have given the tea party too little credit it seems. Even if vast majority of tea party politicians are fakes&liars, its created the narrative of this unrelenting partisan gridlock. Which helps us by revealing secession as a win/win solution (win/win for all except the bankers & ruling class that is)

Go go tea party

[Keith and stuff]

That guy is full of hate. Thanks for the read though. I scanned it and enjoyed what I read, mostly.

The Tea Partiers and other government-haters who have caused Washington to all but close because they refuse to compromise are threatening all that we aspire to be together.

[Acala]

The concept of secession has gone from zero to mainstream discussion in less than ten years. That a psychopathic authoritarian like this Nazi would even mention the idea is gigantic. The years of politicians deliberately nurturing factions as a strategy to keep power has now created real schisms that will never heal. We need to seem them break out along geographic lines.

[JustinTime]

The Tea Partiers and other government-haters who have caused Washington to all but close

If the US government is currently all but closed, Id hate to see what Reich would consider fully functioning.

[Origanalist]

If the US government is currently all but closed, Id hate to see what Reich would consider fully functioning.

The very thought is enough to give one nightmares.

[Occam's Banana]

If the US government is currently all but closed, Id hate to see what Reich would consider fully functioning.

Yeah. I noticed that. And this, too:


[...] a so-called "sequester" that's cutting deeper and deeper into education, infrastructure, programs for the nation's poor, and national defense.

LOL. If what he ludicrously refers to as "cutting" is enough to provoke such an hysterical outburst from him, I can only imagine the depths of raving lunacy to which he will sink if any of the things he mentions (education, welfare, defense, etc.) ever actually faces REAL reductions in funding (rather than increases that merely aren't as large as they otherwise would have been)

[TheTexan]

I see this supposed "gridlock" mentioned in CNN comments all the time

[Working Poor]

The liberals keep saying the problem is tea party hates Obama cause he is black.

I keep telling them that Obama being black is the greatest gift the elite have ever gotten from the public. Oh they get mad and foam @ the mouth when i say that

[gwax23]

Hes so cute

http://clog.dailycal.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/r-reich.jpg

[sluggo]

Dorf on the economy

[osan]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/36729833.jpg


Maybe. What if this is what Theye want? What poses the larger threat to the globalist agenda, fifty independent nations or one large and more or less coherent one?

Run correctly, the United States might pose the tougher nut - perhaps even if the nation is not run so well. But if they are broken into the component elements, each going more or less its own way... well, does not divide and conquer apply here? Just a thought.

[Origanalist]

Maybe. What if this is what Theye want? What poses the larger threat to the globalist agenda, fifty independent nations or one large and more or less coherent one?

Run correctly, the United States might pose the tougher nut - perhaps even if the nation is not run so well. But if they are broken into the component elements, each going more or less its own way... well, does not divide and conquer apply here? Just a thought.

I'm quite willing to take that chance, I don't see US posing any threat as currently constituted/ obvious.

[phill4paul]

Secession now.

I've already done it. 2 yrs. reportable income tax free. Still working on ways to further cripple them. Economics is one aspect of war. I'm done with them.

[TheTexan]

Maybe. What if this is what Theye want? What poses the larger threat to the globalist agenda, fifty independent nations or one large and more or less coherent one?

Run correctly, the United States might pose the tougher nut - perhaps even if the nation is not run so well. But if they are broken into the component elements, each going more or less its own way... well, does not divide and conquer apply here? Just a thought.

The globalist agenda can be defined by one word, centralization. Secession decentralizes, which they dont want

[phill4paul]

Maybe. What if this is what Theye want? What poses the larger threat to the globalist agenda, fifty independent nations or one large and more or less coherent one?

Run correctly, the United States might pose the tougher nut - perhaps even if the nation is not run so well. But if they are broken into the component elements, each going more or less its own way... well, does not divide and conquer apply here? Just a thought.

The federal government is already a part of the global agenda. So I don't really see where it would hurt.

[Origanalist]

I've already done it. 2 yrs. reportable income tax free. Still working on ways to further cripple them. Economics is one aspect of war. I'm done with them.

Doing the same, just not as long. All this year off the books and the last quarter of 2012.

What would they do if we all stopped?