Published on Sunday, April 25, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
Hell Yes, Secesh! Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out
by David Michael Green
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I'm dead serious, then, when I say good riddance to the tea party and GOP dominated states and their backward societies. If they want to secede from the union, we should encourage them. We in the progressive states will then be free to actually make thoughtful public policy decisions for once, without all this painful catering to absolutely obstinate regressive politicians. They, meanwhile, can set up their ideal Republic of Jesus. They can toss out science and do supersti... - sorry, I mean religion - instead, as the basis for their education system and other policy decisions. They can spend all their money on the military and eat pork rinds all day long. They can cut their lazy seniors off the Social Security and Medicare dole, and put them to work in coal mines right up until the day they die. It will be good for their character! They can oppress women and minorities and gays just as much as they need to in order to feel better about their sorry selves, and then watch what happens when all those folks split for better places, like where we live. (Watch out, though - we may borrow their repressive immigration policies to keep them out of Intelligent America. We'll treat regressives like they treat poor Mexican immigrants, and wouldn't that alone be worth the price of admission?)
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If it sounds like I'm laughing at these tea party buffoons and their secession rants, it's because I am.
And if it sounds like I'd be more than happy to grant them the wish of their autonomy, it's because I would.
Indeed, I would just as soon that we secede from them ourselves, if they're not going to get there first.
Goodbye, and good riddance.
Oh, and good luck, too. Y'all are gonna need it.
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