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Pro-Trump Texans Very Serious About Secession: Driving Democrats Out and Keeping Their Assets and Property

Texans are talking secession again, and it doesn’t seem to matter how many times we remind them that the University of Texas and Texas A&M cannot win the national championship in football if they’re not in the nation. They evidently believe that they have a constitutional right to live under the president that they choose and if they cannot, they’ll just leave.

As laughable as it sounds, it really does make one fear for the future of this country. Right now, this nation is pulling itself apart at the seams. It is bad enough that the nation is polarized to the degree we see, we don’t need states talking about secession. No, we’re not silly enough to pretend it could happen, but the fact that it’s even being discussed is disconcerting, and it is being discussed:

From NBC News:

That bill, Michael notes, received the backing of the Texas Republican Party headed by former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) who served one term in the U.S. House, and the bill will likely be voted on the Texas legislature this year.

“Just like so much of Trumpian America, secession in places like Texas is rooted in a combination of nativism, xenophobia and white racial grievance,” the report states adding the Facebook page contains, “fantasies of forcing Democrats to leave the state, seizing their property and forcing them to ‘convert’ (to what is unclear). Just like the Confederates before them, this modern secessionist ethos is rooted at least in large part in maintaining white supremacy and authoritarian governance, regardless of the costs.

Allen West is black but he’s leading the way for a white supremacy government. One can be black in this government, so long as one is black and favors white supremacy. And of course authoritarianism. Because why leave the nation if one is going to risk allowing voters have a say in government? What if voters start getting all uppity and vote for Democrats?

“For instance, if Texas somehow managed to declare independence in the near future,” Michael wrote, “rather than simply carrying on with the status quo ante, as many secessionists and increasing numbers of Republicans appear to assume, any independence push would presumably shut off the federal tap, which currently sends Texas tens of billions of dollars more than it receives from the state. A successful secession push would likewise (and presumably) send industry, spooked by political instability, scattering, gutting Texas’s vibrant economy.”

Yes, football and another consideration. Texans get more federal money back than they put in. So they would have to find a way to drain money off another “country” and we don’t think “the United States” would work.

The frightening aspect of this is not so much that Texas will secede. No, the frightening aspect is this is more evidence that the right believes it should never have to live under a Democratic president, ever, even if they have to fight over it. They believe that they have a right to rule and Democrats can just deal with it or fight against them.

These are dangerous times and this is just further evidence.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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