An Argument For Blue State Secession

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220166609


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

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

"Looks like secession is back on the menu, boys!"

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.

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

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

/snip

You mean like not being able to define a woman?

[SVPete]

Re-runs! What would DU do without re-runs?!  

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"?

[Airwolf]

If I remember correctly the last time any states tried this it didn't end so well for those that left the Union, and it was a lot of Democrats then that led the charge too. History repeats itself.

[SVPete]

How should one pronounce "Bluexit"?

"MOE-rahn"

[Tucker]

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,

Another failed history major. Prior to the 2000 election. red referred to the democrat party and blue was the Republican color.

[DUmpDiver]

Red gets all of the swing states that Trump won.

[Old n Grumpy]

And all the liberals and progressives would be required to leave the red states and go home to the blue ones.

They could re-populate all the inner cities that are ghost towns like in Baltimore, San Francisco, Seattle, and all the other cities that have been decimated by homelessness, crime, and high taxes

[BannedFromDU]

I guess this needs to be repeated: there are no red or blue states. Cities are blue, some bluer than others. Suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas are red.

The way to create liberal utopias is to transform cities into states, and wall them off from everyone else. Problem solved.

[DefiantSix]

As far as I'm concerned...

The Leftist scum are welcome to leave the Union, and take with them whatever the mouth breathers can keep and hold.

 

[DUmpDiver]

And all the liberals and progressives would be required to leave the red states and go home to the blue ones.

They could re-populate all the inner cities that are ghost towns like in Baltimore, San Francisco, Seattle, and all the other cities that have been decimated by homelessness, crime, and high taxes

Seattle is not a ghost town. Downtown is crammed with homeless drug addicts and the real estate market has strong demand with limited inventory.



I spent my whole life there but escaped to rural WA in 2015.

[Airwolf]

I guess this needs to be repeated: there are no red or blue states. Cities are blue, some bluer than others. Suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas are red.

The way to create liberal utopias is to transform cities into states, and wall them off from everyone else. Problem solved.

 I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[BannedFromDU]

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

     I say we build walls around blue cities, airdrop weapons and ammo, install cameras, and enjoy the carnage on TV.

[FlaGator]

Unable to see a downside.

[Rebel]

I guess this needs to be repeated: there are no red or blue states. Cities are blue, some bluer than others. Suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas are red.

The way to create liberal utopias is to transform cities into states, and wall them off from everyone else. Problem solved.

Yep, looking pretty f'n red to me, DUmbasses.

[RonE]

Damn!. It looks like they were running low on blue paint on the 2024 map.

My advice to the dims (like they'd ask): Keep repackaging the same message. And push back loudly on trans, DEI, and border policy. Blame everything on Trump and keep those maga insults coming! Oh, a Schiff/Nadler ticket can't miss.

[SVPete]

WRT the 2024 map, besides the obvious big Dem-run cities, I wonder how many blue counties are skewed that way due to the presence of universities and/or gooberment bureaucrats. I recognize several CA counties that are probably affected that way (e.g. Humboldt, Yolo, Sacramento, and San Diego Counties).

[Rebel]

Damn!. It looks like they were running low on blue paint on the 2024 map.

My advice to the dims (like they'd ask): Keep repackaging the same message. And push back loudly on trans, DEI, and border policy. Blame everything on Trump and keep those maga insults coming! Oh, a Schiff/Nadler ticket can't miss.

They think they lost because they didn't go far enough left. That's why they're trotting out Bernie and AOC.