Here We Go Again?

Some interesting recent polling data has shown up regarding an issue that most rational Americans thought was ancient history: secession. The poll comes weeks after a recent survey found that a sizable portion of Americans support dissolving the Union. In fact, as we speak, historical landmarks, statues and names of public infrastructure are being removed and erased, especially those having to do with American exploration, independence and even more so, the Confederacy.  The rationale behind this erasing of history is of course the left's new religion of "wokeness" which is essentially the psychotic extension and application of political correctness into and within society.

The result of this - and I'm being polite here - cultural movement has been to divide the country like we haven't seen in a hundred and sixty years.  And, as I have opined in these pages unendingly, that divide is great, and unsolvable. And now a George Washington University poll released this week indicated that both left and right leaning Americans are fed up with the status quo, and are willing to consider supporting at least a partial dissolution of the United States, and at best session of their state from it.

As The Daily Wire reported:

Two in three Republicans in the South and almost half of Democrats in Pacific states want to secede from the Union, according to a new poll.

Conducted in June by YouGov in conjunction with BrightLineWatch, the survey asked participants in each region of the United States: “Would you support or oppose [your state] seceding from the United States to join a new union with [list of states in new union]?”

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At 37%, the overall percentage of those who want to dissolve the Union was “arrestingly high,” BrightLineWatch explained. Republicans and independents in the South were most favorable to secession, at 66% and 50% respectively. Of Democrats polled, 47% in the Pacific states said they want to break off. Sizable portions of independents in the Heartland and Mountain states also wanted to form their own country.

Well now. Those are some pretty high numbers and they do not bode well for a peaceful and lawful upcoming midterm election. Further, the poll also indicated that

". . . More than half of Republicans support the potential use of force to preserve traditional American values and nearly half believe a time will come when “patriotic Americans” will have to take the law into their own hands."

So here we are again, right in the middle of 1860.  The current state of affairs is such that some of the folks want even more centralized and powerful central planning by the national government, and others want less, with more power held by the several individual states.

Any armed confrontation, in my view, however Constitutional, noble and patriotic, will result in complete annihilation, as it did before.   The solution at this point is to trust the institutions that manage and contain the national government's power, and remove and replace those who have corrupted them.  We must vote them out.  With extreme prejudice.  Democrat, Republican and Independents all.

Should that effort fail, a reassessment of the situation would be in order.  But in an abundance of caution, I'd stock up on ammunition.

Just in case.