Secession -- USA 2020 Elections: Thread

[Zenaan Harkness]

Folks starting to think about secession and the rest.  One thought is something analogous: refounding.

Could be a great opportunity, could be fraught.  The following may be interesting to provoke thought.


   A Common-Sense Solution
     Tom Trenchard via AmericanMind.org
   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/common-sense-solution
   https://americanmind.org/features/a-house-dividing/a-common-sense-solution/

      The real America needs a refounding.

      Human life is never quite as stable as we’d like, but we live in uniquely unsettling times. Some of us are angry. Many of us are worried. All of us are anxious about an uncertain future. In these circumstances, the bombastic, triumphal optimism of the pro-Biden crowd - just take a look at CNN for about 10 seconds and you’ll see what I mean - is obviously the product of deep insecurity. Like a 5’8” teenager driving a souped-up F150, it’s clear that the façade of Biden’s popular mandate to govern is masking a dangerously hollow reality.

      ..Today, this common creed has vanished. We are two Americas: Biden’s America and Trump’s America.

      ..“Give me liberty or give me death,”

      ..It is high time for an American re-founding; not a “secession” or “separation,” but a “perpetuation” of self-evidently true American political principles embodied in a new political Union. This is what the United American Counties could be.

Limited and local government is the foundation of a genuine republic.

The natural right to religious liberty—of both worship and exercise—exists beyond politics, taking precedence over all rights merely positive, civil, or legal.

       - The natural right to life for all human beings at all ages and stages of development is entitled to recognition, respect, and protection.

       - The natural family begun in marriage between one man and one woman is the cornerstone of society.

       - The right to private property is fundamental, and should only be regulated as absolutely necessary to maintain free markets, equal opportunity, and the fair reward of industry and merit.

       - All citizens should be educated to understand the meaning and importance of American political principles, and equipped to become informed, active participants in our local, regional, and national systems of government.

       - Citizenship in the United American Counties is available to all who understand, profess, and commit to uphold the principles in this Declaration, regardless of national origin, racial or ethnic identity, or religious belief.

      The common sense of 1776 dictated the American Revolution. The common sense of 2020 dictates the creation of a new political vehicle for perpetuating the true principles of the Revolution.

      Biden’s Urban America has already seceded from the United States of America that many of us know and love. Trump’s Counties can be a life raft for the American experiment in its most dire hour of need.