Recently Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scallia made the comment:
"If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede."
Apparently in some mad fantasy he imagines the responsibility of interpreting the constitution doesn't fall on the judicial branch, but instead on the executive branch, in the form of military force. If there isn't a natural right to secession America owes England some serious reparations.
But I have my own mad fantasy. Face it, the ideological differences between liberals and conservatives are irreconcilable, and its unconscionable to subject one to the bad ideas of the other against their will. Public debate is getting us nowhere because both sides are buried in their own propaganda. We need to actually see the tangible results of unfettered liberalism and unfettered conservatism. So, next presidential election, let both candidates win. Let the republican run the red states and the democrat run the blue states. Split the congress. There’s more than enough “representatives” to go around. Let the liberals try to create their socialist welfare utopia without the republican dime and see what happens. Let the republicans build their corporatist warfare empire without the democrat dime and see where it gets them.
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