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Should Secession be an option?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gnarwhal" data-source="post: 61964547" data-attributes="member: 329161"><p>Well said. Someone accurately (IMHO) stated earlier this year that Republicans tend to vote against their interests, I can see in some ways how that's true.</p><p></p><p>Also, a little while back I saw an episode of the TV mini-series John Adams with Paul Giamatti playing the titular character. One interesting thing I noted was following the trial of the British soldiers who fired into the crowd at the Boston Massacre, it was recommended that Adams leave because he would be a hated man for defending the British. He told the person that "I'm not going anywhere, Massachusetts is my country". There was an interesting worldview in the Revolutionary era (and in a lot ways on through the Civil War) that the states were independent countries. The Articles of Confederation strengthened that notion and until the Constitution was ratified there really wasn't a sense of a unified nation.</p><p></p><p>I'm glad this secession nonsense is small-time, and I hope it never gains traction because it would be back tracking at best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gnarwhal, post: 61964547, member: 329161"] Well said. Someone accurately (IMHO) stated earlier this year that Republicans tend to vote against their interests, I can see in some ways how that's true. Also, a little while back I saw an episode of the TV mini-series John Adams with Paul Giamatti playing the titular character. One interesting thing I noted was following the trial of the British soldiers who fired into the crowd at the Boston Massacre, it was recommended that Adams leave because he would be a hated man for defending the British. He told the person that "I'm not going anywhere, Massachusetts is my country". There was an interesting worldview in the Revolutionary era (and in a lot ways on through the Civil War) that the states were independent countries. The Articles of Confederation strengthened that notion and until the Constitution was ratified there really wasn't a sense of a unified nation. I'm glad this secession nonsense is small-time, and I hope it never gains traction because it would be back tracking at best. [/QUOTE]
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