Ask the Irish, the Balkans, The Middle East.

American Geography mandates Ocean to Ocean, there will be only one. No competent government, people or faction will settle for anything less.

There will be no separation ultimately, however if you need to or like to you can grab a piece. We have to start somewhere and live somewhere eh?

If you entertain any delusions that separation is but to establish a base of operations for the wars of reunification you are utterly delusional and a coward, no doubt you went to an Ivy League school.

The case for the Union was always Geography and it’s utterly non-negotiable. The case for separatism of course has always been selfish and proprietary interests, short sighted and hiding from reality until it marches in the door – this description by the way fits the Confederate government. The Confederacy’s soldiers and Generals were brave and often brilliant but the Confederate leadership at no time supported them but half heartedly. Lee was a butler, almost a slave himself to Jefferson Davis, Hunt kept back 100,000 men he never used, the entire Confederacy never gelled or centralized enough to become a government. There was for instance no unity of command until January 1865 when Lee is already trapped in Petersburg and Sherman is gutting the South- only then is Lee given total command by the coward J. Davis – the equivalent of Von Paulus being made a Field Marshall in Stalingrad in the hope’s he’d shoot himself and absolve Hitler and the rest.

There will be one nation Atlantic to Pacific but if you must grab a piece but understand you must grab it all to win. Geography does not negotiate.

The New Deal Revolution was and is no different in this respect — except — where we had before a Constitutional Federation that was formalized, legal, legitimate and open we now have informal, unconstitutional and so illegal, illegitimate except by obscure rulings and statutes and largely hidden in a hall of mirrors and clouds of smoke free-for-all oligarchy that constantly forms and dissolves shifting alliances and interests — American feudalism has replaced the Constitutional American Federation.

However feudalism to the extent it holds together is a form of federation. Congratulations New Dealers: it worked. Well, it works for them, but there’s not enough, and soon nothing for the rest of us, which was always the problem with feudalism.

All of History’s answers to governance in North America were Federations. The Iroquois Confederacy, the Articles of Confederation, the Federalist Republic, the Confederacy.

Until now and not even successfully yet no one tried to have a central government, we are in fact witnessing a power struggle of centralization in DC, with the elites, with the Democratic Party as the standard bearer of Centralization but in actually centralizing power they are defeated by their own organic structure and New Deal compromises of Humphrey’s Executors, the APA, the Civil Service protections, the Federal Register….the party of the state is not even centralized at the National Level itself. Our government does not govern itself and it’s many individual and group, department selfish interests protected by laws, courts, statutes, rulings, public sector unions protect those many fragmented interests.

We aren’t even getting into mutual regulatory capture of the various ‘governing’ departments such as Finance with the Treasury, Hollywood and the FCC…

So while formal Federalism at the level of our Union has mostly failed it’s replaced by the ungoverned and unchecked free-for-all morass above. ^^

It’s almost as if being Federated or hopelessly fragmented is our very nature and to attempt to defy it is denying our own gravitational bonds or our intrinsic core natures.

We are a Federation whether we like it or not.

Ice. Fucking. Cold.

A fact which, at the same time, was incidentally true, while also that those who oppose it were impotent against those who seek it.

The problem of bad power is not solved by attacking power itself. Telling good men that power is bad is simply another way of guaranteeing that only bad men claim power. An enduring character of almost every modern heresy is this, which is, fear of power — in so many different ways, places, and contexts.

Not everyone is an immoral deracinated disloyal Yankee scumbag like you. Some men can overlook their mistreatment by individuals and retain feelings of love and loyalty to their fellow men and their native institutions. Obviously, you wouldn’t know anything about how to be a man of moral virtue and character.