Texas is far from the only state where nut jobs think it’s OK for their state to secedeĀ from the United States of America.
Others from Vermont to Hawaii think that since Great Britain has voted to withdraw from the European Union that Americans think they have license to do the same thing with Washington, D.C.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/5-us-independence-movements-inspired-by-brexit-214010
Am I missing something here?
The Brits remain part of a sovereign nation. The EU is a confederation of other sovereign European nations that sets certain rules for those nations to follow. They involve trade, currency and travel.
Every nation within the EU is free to self-govern according to their political framework.
Now we hear this goofy trans-Atlantic talk about states pulling out of the United States. Secessionists are tired of what they say is a government that’s too big, too intrusive and too out of touch.
Huh? What?
The federal government is responsible for the protection and well-being of 320-plus million Americans, all of whom live in states that are governed by that document called the U.S. Constitution. You remember it, yes? It grants us all rights and liberties. It sets forth the governing framework.
Oh, and then we have Congress, which appropriates money to pay for things like national defense, highways, Social Security and Medicare … and quite a number of other things we’ve come to cherish as American citizens.
This secession talk is crazy in the extreme. I need not remind everyone that some states tried that once. We went to war and the battles that ensued killed about 600,000 Americans.
Britain’s exit from the EU should be settled over there.
Such nuttiness needs to stay on that side of the ocean.