tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post6506234529123424239..comments2024-03-26T09:49:07.212-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: It's Not Secession If You're Not Part Of Any CountryK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-36907595330336610972021-09-23T06:35:07.145-07:002021-09-23T06:35:07.145-07:00I think Cal would be unable to secede. It has a lo...I think Cal would be unable to secede. It has a lot of power and influence over the rest of the country now. So, why would it. And if it did secede, how would they get water and electricity? If I'm a Nevada or Arizona electric company providing electricity to California, and they secede, my rates to sell to them are at a Minimum quadrupling. And if I'm on the Colorado river, rationing so that California has enough water? That ends immediately. <br /><br />Oh, KT, a point of correction; vandalism, lawlessness, rioting, and other cherished "rights" of the progressives trying to destroy the country, continue on every day in Minneapolis, it didn't stop when the riots. <br /><br />Take a look at The shot spotter map for Minneapolis. https://www.minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/public-safety/police-public-safety/crime-maps-dashboards/shots-fired-map/<br />Default will give you shots heard for the last week. Click on the green button in the middle bottom. And choose "Calls for Service, year-to-date gunfire".<br /><br />Now, say you get a job offer to work in Minneapolis. Money is really good. Would you take it? <br /><br />St Paul's Failure, err Mayor, rejected buying shot spotter because it isn't proven to work. While it would also be bad, it wouldn't be near as bad as this.Mostly Nothinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07511731036581746798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-91780283601683192522021-09-23T06:04:16.528-07:002021-09-23T06:04:16.528-07:00I think that, equally important as considering wha...I think that, equally important as considering what you seceding *from*, is what you are seceding *to*. If Texas seceded, what would they become? Would the current state government change? And would the people who are preventing the borders from being closed in Texas now suddenly vanish, or would they still be there?[1] Is there any reason, any at all, to think that the state-level politicians are any more competent than the federal-level ones?<br /><br />Moving to California, I assume that if the whole state seceded you would not be happy if the current state government stayed in power. Assuming you couldn't remove and replace them, would the secession continue? Would San Diego County be more to your liking as an independent country? Or maybe just your immediate neighborhood? Or, maybe you aren't really in step with your immediate neighbors, and it would just be you? <br /><br />It's all well and good to talk about secession as a theoretical idea, but it seems to me that actually intending to *do* it will inevitably go poorly. And threatening to do it comes off a lot like standing on the street corner, dousing yourself in gasoline, and threatening to set yourself on fire if your demands aren't met. I mean, people get results sometimes by doing that, but it isn't really ideal. <br /><br /><br /><br />[1] A <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22301740&postID=2925947794467480021" rel="nofollow">few days ago</a>, I asked who benefits from not enforcing the border, and Ilion kindly gave a list of five groups. Would any of those groups cease to exist if Texas became an independent country?tim eiselehttp://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.comnoreply@blogger.com