Flying-Emu said:
If I'm not mistaken... I believe that Texas is the one state that has the legal right to secede, due to the fact that they actually rebelled against the old Mexican government to join the United States.
Of course, I may be hallucinating.
This is true. It is also the only state allowed to fly it's flag the same height as the US flag (but only at the capitol in Austin).
I live in Texas and I havn't heard any seccessionist mutterings just yet.
Therumancer said:
This is one of the better posts I've seen on the internet and somewhat captures the core of my problem with politics in general.
Both sides believe so fervently that they are right and that their position is the only one that can save America that we no longer engage in civil discourse, instead we berate one another and attempt to foil the other side at every turn. I know quite a few people who voted for Obama (and where I live, such things were rare indeed) because they believed beyond logic that the man was actually going to somehow magically resolve all the problems in the nation.
Every day it seems I get to listen to people rail on about how unfair the bonus situation was at AIG, or how socialist the current administration is or how our national security is being compromised at every turn. It seems to me that these people might be missing the bigger picture: these individual instances of outrage are only symptoms of a larger issue. Namely, that we are more concerned with thrwarting the other side than we are with actually resolving a problem.