Let’s hope Texas doesn’t blink.

Years of conflict The situation between Texas and the federal government over the Texas-Mexico border took a dramatic and potentially dangerous turn this week. The Supreme Court (with Amy Coney Barrett as the deciding vote) ruled that Texas cannot prevent the federal government from removing the barbed wire fence it has installed along part of its border. Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas National Guard to protect the barbed wire (and thus the border), saying this is a matter of state self-defense that overrides the Supreme Court’s ruling.

The stakes got even higher when 25 Republican governors signed a letter supporting Gov. Abbott. Some governors promised to send the National Guard to support Texas’ resistance to the federal government. Not surprisingly, many people are now talking about the possibility of civil war breaking out.

A civil war would be terrible, butI believe that all right-thinking Americans should support Texas in this fight, and in fact support more states in standing up to the federal government to the point of considering secession. .

I have made it clear over the years that I support secession. I think our country is too big to succeed. Our political system has become increasingly repressive over the years, and our current federal government makes many empires of the past seem like subservient dreamlands by comparison. We need to break up into multiple countries, and I hope this Texas resistance is a step in that direction.

When I first advocated secession in 2015-2016, I knew it was a fantasy and most people considered the idea crazy at best and treasonous at worst. I did. But then 2020 happened. The various responses states have taken to the coronavirus pandemic have reminded Americans that their states matter. They are not just cogs in the federal machine. As a result, millions of people moved, reinforcing a kind of patriotism towards their own state rather than the country as a whole. Now people are beginning to wonder if their states would be better off not being under federal control.

Divorce nationwide is part of the national conversation and more people are taking it more seriously. good. However, there are still far too many false assumptions about the possibility of national divorce, most of which stem from what we are indoctrinated into about our nation’s history in public schools.

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First, dissolution does not automatically mean civil war. Many countries around the world have collapsed for years without a single shot being fired. The most obvious example is the Soviet Union, but there are others. The current situation in Texas, for example, does not need to escalate to violent bloodshed; the federal government simply needs to back down and recognize Texas’ right to self-defense. Bloodshed will only happen if the federal government wants it to happen.

Another incorrect assumption is that a national divorce will result in only two new states. It should be something simple like north/south or something like that. However, a state divorce can create three, four, or even more new states. There is no natural law that requires a certain minimum state size (see Europe). Corporate media likes to divide us into blue states and red states, but the reality of our differences is much more complex. Montana and Alabama may both be red states, but they have very different ways of governing and how they want to live. Why force them together?

Many also believe that national divorces should follow current state policy. The reality is that we are roughly divided into urban and rural areas. Chicago is different from parts of southern Illinois in the same way that many European countries are different from each other. A national divorce can include many state divorces.

This may sound like a mess. After all, who would prefer the uncertainty of shifting borders to a unified, peaceful nation? That “unified, peaceful nation” uses its power to trample on individual rights? As we impose cultural degradation on our people, create money out of thin air to further enrich our elites, and spend more money defending Ukraine’s borders than our own, uncertainty increases. do. Much more attractive. Or at least the better of two bad choices.

Even if a state divorce occurs peacefully, it does not happen overnight. In fact, it already started in 2020, with many people fleeing to states that were better able to handle the coronavirus. People will continue to vote with their feet as states make their positions known on important issues. It’s the only vote that really matters. Florida and Texas have already seen large influxes of immigrants from other states over the past few years, and there’s no reason to think that flow will slow.

That immigration will strengthen the resolve of leaders to stand up to the federal government. Look at Ron DeSantis. Although he narrowly lost his first bid for governor of Florida, he was re-elected in a landslide thanks in part to the support of new Floridians who rallied through his strong leadership during the coronavirus pandemic. If Governor Abbott doesn’t relent, we’ll be looking for more people to move to Texas.

This internal immigration is a good thing because it makes domestic divorce less inevitable and more peaceful. At some point, most people will wake up and realize that it’s easier to go our separate ways than to fight for control of each other.

Let’s hope that Governor Abbott and the people of Texas continue to stand strong and that one day they will look back on this conflict as just one step toward a peaceful national divorce.