Maybe it's time to talk secession.

[Hekate]

56. We just keep slogging. My POV changed forever with Bush v Gore 20 years ago...

I knew in my bones that we had witnessed a bloodless coup, but I was not ready to give up on my country.

When Barack Obama ran the first time, the battles here were epic. It was amazing to me how much sheer projection people could do on a man from Hawai’i — for both good and ill. But when all was said and done, I knew he was not the Messiah (look what we do to Messiahs) but what he could offer us was a chance to regroup, regain our sanity and vision, refresh. And still the battles in this country went on.

One of the insights I gained in Obama’s 8 years in office: there is a significant chunk of this country for whom the Civil War never ended, and they don’t all live in the South. Some of you may think that is scarcely an insight worth mentioning, but my whole life has been spent in Hawai’i and California, and it was news to me. A fair number of “those people” live in California.

We seem to be in a Cold War. Newt Gingrich and his cohort fired the first of many shots. I think we just need to be aware of that. And never give up.