Success at Secession?

I have seen a lot of news recently on states ceding from the Nation. My Facebook feed has been filled with news links, and commentary on it. Lots of commentary. It seems that this issue like many further empowers the class warfare mentality of Americans. I have seen a clear line drawn in the sand. Most people ,besides some of my truly libertarian and anarchist friends, picked a side and are defending their side. I decided I needed to say something about it. I really don’t want to, I though the politics would go away after the election. The more of politics i encounter the more I lean towards anarchy.

Angry Nation

I checked at the time of writing this and petitions have come in from all 50 states. Nearly 750,000 citizens signed various petitions for the states. Texas alone has over 100,000 making it the most popular petition on the Site. Followed by a recount of the election with half as many lol. Even though I have heard lots of anger directed at the petitions the counter petition, To deport everyone that signed one, has only received 20 thousand petitions. Which I find to be dumb. You can’t deport someone out of their country of citizenship. Maybe exile them but to where? What this all adds up to me is a divided country and an angry one.

Response?

To get a response from the White House you must get 25K signatures in 30 days. At this time seven states, including my state Tennessee, has reached that mark. Meaning that the White house will have to respond to the petitions. I did not sign the petitions. Ill cover why not in a bit. I will admit to being curious how the government will respond to close to one million pissed off Americans that no longer wish to be in the union. How can it tactfully tell people to fuck off it ain’t happening. Cause in essence they are. In no way will they peacefully grant secession. The government never gives up power nor taxes. With these petitions getting serious attention though I’m sure they are giving it serious thought.

My thoughts

I am very intrigued by the petitions to cede. It makes me wonder if more people are waking up to the terrible path we are on with the economy heading off a cliff. I hope so, but think their efforts would be better served in other ways. Secession is not going to happen. At least not peacefully. The last time a state ceded it lead to the civil war. The states that already have enough petitions just happen to all be southern states. I don’t think that a second civil war is coming, but to think it’s impossible would be folly. How much further would the country need to be divided before violence starts. How much more can the government take from us before talk of secession become serious? Why did I not sign? Mostly I think it’s pointless. Asking the government to let you leave the union is pointless. I also have no doubt that there is a list of everyone that signed. Could they be considered domestic terrorists? Under the NDAA probably so. I’ll just try to stay off that list for now.Although I do not think this will go anywhere I am interested in seeing how it plays out and how things go from here.