Off the deep ends of the political spectrum

[entelechy77]

For those of you who are crying in your beer over the 2004 election, I have some unsolicited advice and information. Hopefully, you will emerge from the cocoon of media saturation and high school civics nostrums a wiser (and angrier) citizen. More on that below.

But first off, here's some new data on the 2004 election:

Comments

Secession.

[rustycoon]

While the resulting spectacle on C-Span might be fun to watch, the seven days after that while the state was reminded of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, and subsquent barking by Shrub, followed by the recall of that state's representatives, and then the mobilization of the national guard of the neighboring states to remove the state government of that one state, would be a 48 hour civil war that would announce to the whole wide world that our forces, stationed throughout the world, are ripe for the picking.

It'd be a seriously ugly affair, and I'd herald it as the end of the USA as we know it.

People are too afraid to get any such movement underway, however. So it's rather a moot point.

People would rather throw up their hands and claim defeat than actually put in the work to see their designs manifest. The exceptions are currently in power.

Re: Secession.

[maniakes]

Several years ago (I think it was 1997 or 1998), I watched part of the first convention of the "Southern Independance Party" on C-SPAN. One of points made by the speaker was that a recent poll had shown that 12% of southerners would favor secession if it could be achieved peacefully.

Since the south has the most historical allegence with secession, I doubt if the figure is any higher in the rest of the country. And I would expect the percent willing to risk a war for secession would be much, much lower.

For all the at-least-half joking talk about secession, I supect the ovewhelming majority of both parties love this country and would much rather put their efforts into saving it than dismembering it.

Re: Secession.

[aikien]

Secession kills a country and leaves a body for two different countries to emerge from. The king is dead, long live the king.

I certainly don't think secession is going to happen. Most of America are still very happy, and will soon forget about this whole political non-sense until either a) the Iraq war truly bogs down into another Vietnam or until b) the next election.