Irreconcilable Differences – America in the Throws of Divorce
Succumb to Socialism or reclaim its freedom
What begins with the trappings of good will, respect and even love, can often disintegrate into petty differences, resentment and rising anger. What starts out as mutual common ground in the building of a family, or the foundation for a country, can unravel if the common ground or the foundation is disturbed, distorted, or loses its meaning and significance.
When the spirit of love, or the spirit of freedom, that binds two people or a nation together, is fractured by forces that tear it asunder, marriages and nations begin to crumble. And so it is, as the divide between Americans grows wider, as the principles of our freedom are eroded by the actions of those who seek more power over the masses and those who seek to live off the sweat of others, America is beginning to come apart at the seams, as the resentment towards opposing views becomes even more acrimonious.
Harold
It’s time to stop speaking about “secession” – even as it obtained in 1861. Rather, we should be talking about a “return” to the nation’s founding principles by those states who are presently mentioned with regard to this action.
When we concentrate on the concept of “secession”, obviously the natural conclusion is that those “seceding” are “leaving” the established entity (the United States) and attempting to create ANOTHER entity; in 1861, that was the Confederate States of America. But this is not accurate. The original united States (lower case “u”) had been all but annihilated by the time Southern states began serious consideration of leaving the Union and returning to the principles upon which the “united States” had been founded. I believe that the same applies today – except that almost 150 years later, virtually NO remnant of the founding principles remains in the United (with a capital “U”) States.
We should refer to the effort by states and their citizens in this matter in the way Ronald Reagan spoke of his life-long membership in the Democrat party as he became a Republican:
“I didn’t leave them, they left me!”