Hi,
Past my bedtime but I really have to agree with your post.
One small thing that got by most people. The senate authorized several million dollars to study the descendents of slavery and investigate the idea of reparation. Now the way I see it is simple. Just because my great, great, great, great granddaddy may have been mean to your great, great, great, great granddaddy does not mean I owe you shit....and vice versa.
Now you just know what the study will recommend and BO is already on record as being in favor of that idea. Hey a little transfer of wealth never hurt anyone..... Think what will happen if that gets to congress with the liberal media fanning the flames......even if it gets voted down the war will begin.
Personally secession should be the last resort and I think it could be done without firing a shot. There would be a lot of deck shuffling. If Texas goes first and announces there will be no living off the government as a lifestyle of choice, and we will be glad to buy you a one way ticket to anywhere, I suspect many would take them up on that. Hell that honestly took place in AL when I was a kid. They would go in for their welfare check and get a one way bus ticket to Chicago or Detroit.
Why do I think secession would be bloodless? Lincoln had the slavery issue to sell the north on going to war. At this point I doubt too many of them would be willing to fight so they would say let em go, just the path of least resistence.
nite,
5412