By now you probably know that people in every state in the country have started petitions to secede from the United States. First of all, good luck with that. How often has that worked before? Oh, right, never.
Secondly, you might want to think a bit before you go ahead and start your own country. Personally, I like having the US military there to protect me. Maybe you do, too but whereas I will still have it, you would not. Think your former country is going to bail you out when some big bad comes knocking on your door? Think again.
And while we’re at it, I like being able to travel the world with full protection of the US government behind me. Get stuck in some foreign country and need help, yeah, there’s an embassy not too far away. Not so much for the newly created Republic of Alabama.
Oh, and to senior citizens in states looking to leave, hope you don’t need that Medicare or Social Security because you won’t be taking it with you. And Florida, that’s going to impact a lot of your residents. Texas, too but you’ll be smarting from all the people you have lured away from their states racing home to keep their US citizenship. Funny, your governor doesn’t seem all that excited about the possibility of giving up all that federal aid you get.
Aside from all of that, this is really absurd. Part of the deal of our kind of government remains that not everyone will be happy with the outcome of every election. In some ways, that means we are doing something right. You know where nearly 100 percent of people vote for one candidate over the other? Places like North Korea.
Personally, I have lived through many elections where I wasn’t happy. I had threatened to move to Canada if George W. Bush was elected but I didn’t go anywhere. After working on the Gore campaign, I was pretty bitter about the outcome of that race but I didn’t think the state I lived in (New York) should become the nation of New York. But I wasn’t the whiny bitch you people seem to be. Seriously, this stuff annoys the crap out of me.
I actually agree with this:
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
This, however, is not one of those times.