You think I haven't taken logic courses?
You would have to do a comparison on a much smaller scale. A lot was made about Romney not winning hardly anything of the black vote and Obama getting it all. Yet, the vast majority of the black population is located in the south. I'm not trying to be racist at all, but a lot of the demographic information that I have seen leads to that information.
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I'm from Canada. This is just like how Quebec wants to separate. It won't happen because the people who want it are too extreme. Granted, it was a close decision in Quebec's case which ultimately resulted in Quebec staying as part of Canada, but still. Maybe that has no relevance, but that is the first thing this reminded me of.
Also, separating like this isn't as easy as it sounds. They (the separatists) are sugarcoating it to make it sound much more plausible than it actually is. I'll bet that they'll still want to use the American dollar as their currency too.
Just my two-cents though.
Every state has the right to leave the union. Its written in the constitution.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I'm so sick of this ridiculous bullshit. Every time an election goes one way, the losers have to go in some hyperbolic clusterfuck of a bitch fest. The country has been on the decline, falling apart, on the verge of collapse, etc for 200 years. The country is fine. Obama isn't going to bankrupt us, financially or morally. No one is going to secede. No one actually wants to. Calm down. Stop giving publicity to crazy assholes who stay stupid things, stop bitching and actually offer some alternatives if you disagree. Want to know why Romney lost? He had no alternatives. He talked about how awful Obama was, and how much better he would be, but never gave us any indication of what he would do.
My favorite moment from the post election so far is Karl Rove criticizing Obama for running a negative campaign. Karl fucking Rove. If anything is going to kill America it's this crippling lack of self awareness that we seem to have and this collective inability to believe anything could be our fault.
I don't blame people for being upset. I was really looking forward to a Romney presidency.
Yes, it's "illegal" to succeed from the union, however when a state openly rebels I don't think they really care about the laws of the parent nation. As for the Civil War, things are so far different now then they where now using it as a benchmark provides highly inaccurate data in my opinion.
I'm pretty sure that was the Declaration of Independence. Even if this was law, the Form of Government would have to "become destructive of these ends (the rights specified above)." No one in their right mind would believe that the U.S. is currently destructive of these rights, so I don't see how it could be legal for Texas to leave the U.S. peacefully or no based on this document.
Texas wouldnt leave because they would never get the international backing for any foreign trade. It doesnt need to come to war any longer when you can be completely locked out of even being able to port a ship or fly a plane through foreign airspace to shut down foreign trade. Eventually, Texas would beg to be let back in as a state.
As for needing the natural resources from Texas, ask the middle east what happens over oil.