Is Secession Fanciful? It’s Already Underway, Says Professor

By Selwyn Duke

Secession goes periodically in and out of pseudo-elite fashion. When a Republican is elected president, as in 2016 with Donald Trump, liberals in blue (mood) areas sometimes talk about leaving the Union to form their own republics. The media may call this understandable frustration. When leftists control the executive branch and start trampling the Constitution, as in now with the Biden administration, conservatives opine likewise. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has done this, warning that civil war is inevitable unless there’s a national divorce. Of course, when rightists do it, the media may call secession appeals “dangerous radicalism.”

But there’s another way we can label secession: as something already happening.

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Comments

[Eric Hodgdon]

Nice !

Governments exist by the willful acceptance or submission by the people. Following the law is never mandatory, but usually done to make one's life easier. Consent to be governed is another way to look at it. Not even the most forceful dictator is obeyed by everyone.

Locally, laws are enforced by police when they feel like enforcing them and best be done equally too. Traffic is an example of majority rules, for the most part.

Secession is an inherent right despite the common view otherwise. Exercising inherent rights is what a decent people do.

The Covid lookdowns were when people forgot their birth rights. I never once let those "rules" stop me from being a free citizen. Other "edicts" can be ignored even if they are "law" as each law stands until tested in court.