Let's Try Again, Shall We?

Ryan Robertson writing in Newbusters:

Liberals really should decide how they feel about the idea of southern states seceding from the union. The MSNBC crowd suddenly wraps itself in Old Glory and rediscovers the meaning of “treason” at the mention of it.

Others, like travel writer Chuck Thompson, wish they’d go. He honestly believes Southern conservatives are standing in the way of progress and solely responsible for political gridlock. The only ‘logical’ way of dealing with it in his mind is secession. Only then can the Northern states have the utopian society they’re apparently on the verge of attaining.

Despite being known for more of a tongue-in-cheek style, he couldn’t have been any more serious. So serious in fact, that he wrote a book called “Better Off without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”. He promoted it in a recent radio interview with AlterNet’s Joshua Holland.

“We didn’t let the South go when we had the chance. We would have avoided a lot of problems,” Thompson said. “We – meaning this group in the north as we might identify ourselves – could take the country we want into a direction that we think is befitting of America without this push and pull that comes from the Southern states.”

I agree, Mr Thompson. Let's make a clean break of it. I only have one request: be sure to stay on your side of the M-D Line afterwards, please.

As a native Texan, I find this part particularly amusing:

Despite an earlier declaration that both sides would be better off without one another, Thompson contradicted himself when he refused to relinquish the highly conservative state of Texas. “In the end I decided Texas would stay with the North in large part for economic reasons,” he said. “Texas is really one of the economic anchors of this country.”

Oh, you "decided" that, did you? Basically, you need our powerhouse capitalist economy to prop up your wacko socialist dystopian experiments. That about the size of it? Um... no thanks.

I believe you'll discover that we in Texas will be leading the New Secessionist movement if one should come to pass, Mr Thompson. Or perhaps you and your fellow latte-sipping, philosophizing girlymen plan on coming down here and forcing us to remain in the Union? Good luck with that plan.