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I know what you're thinking: red states would be mocked and threatened if they said this. Well, this is (D)ifferent.



--- Quote ---Baron2024 (1,449 posts)
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 08:06 PM
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An Argument For Blue State Secession
This is an older article from the New Republic in 2017 but it is even more relevant in the age of Trump 2.0-

It is Time for a Bluexit- by Kevin Baker

For more than 80 years now, we—the residents of what some people like to call Blue America, but which I prefer to think of as the United States of We Pay Our Own Damn Way—have shelled out far more in federal tax monies than we took in. We have funded massive infrastructure projects in your rural counties, subsidized your schools and your power plants and your nursing homes, sent you entire industries, and simultaneously absorbed the most destitute, unskilled, and oppressed portions of your populations, white and black alike.

All of which, it turns out, only left you more bitter, white, and alt-right than ever.

Some folks here in self-supporting America like to believe that there must be a way to bring you back to your senses and to restore rational government, if not liberal ideals, sometime in the foreseeable future. Everyone seems to have an answer for how to do this. Every day another earnest little homily finds its way to me over my internet transom: “Think locally, act globally,” or “Make art and fight the power,” or the old Joe Hill standby—“Don’t mourn. Organize."

To which I say: Don’t organize. Pack.

Not literally, of course. Not even the good people of Canada should have to stomach a mass migration of moping American liberals mumbling, “Live locally … make art.” What I mean is that it’s time for blue states and cities to effectively abandon the American national enterprise, as it is currently constituted. Call it the New Federalism. Or Virtual Secession. Or Conscious Uncoupling—though that’s already been used. Or maybe Bluexit.

The rest of the article is at the link.

https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america
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"Looks like secession is back on the menu, boys!"



--- Quote ---yellow dahlia (1,942 posts)
5. I've mused on this subject. But those of us who are collecting Social Security will be denied access.

"They" have it.
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Don't forget EBT, welfare, Section 8, etc. However, you would be allowed to keep your taxes. You can create your own ewetopia.


--- Quote ---Ping Tung (1,866 posts)
23. There is always a strong vein of anti-intellectualism in tyrannical movements.

/snip
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You mean like not being able to define a woman?

SVPete:
Re-runs! What would DU do without re-runs?! :tongue:  :loser:

Wait till Blue Nation learns to what degree Red Nation feeds and provides energy to them. And if they think California, Oregon, and Washington will pick up that slack, they'll learn the expensive way that Blue Nation separates West Red Nation from East Red Nation.

CollectivismMustDie:
Seeing as this is originally from 2017 and being regurgitated again now,  I would say it serves as proof,  that these are spoiled children who have tantrums when they do not get their way.

File it next to the burned keyed and vandalized teslas,  and the 'everyone that disagrees with me is hitler' rhetoric.

jukin:
OH PLEASE. PRETTY PLEASE.

Then we can do the fighting when you blue state cock suckers want to come back and mooch of the successful red states.

ADsOutburst:
How should one pronounce "Bluexit"?

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