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Friday, January 18th, 2019

What Right-Wing Whites Miss When They Talk About Secession

Author:     Mike Males
Source:     Yes! Magazine
Publication Date:     Jan 11, 2019
 Link: What Right-Wing Whites Miss When They Talk About Secession
Stephan:   I keep seeing Red state christofascists talking about secession. As with most things put forward by this cohort it is notable for its stupidity. The fact is that states like Mississippi, Alabama, or New Mexico, Kentucky, or Montana are dependent on Blue states for their survival. For instance, for every dollar Mississippi and New Mexico pay into the federal treasury they receive almost $3.00 in funding back. Whereas California for every dollar in gets back about $0.78. The facts are clear, Republicans cannot produce successful governance. They can't even feed their populations as is clear by looking at the percent of each states' population on the SNAP food program. So to all these angry White racists who want to secede, you might think again. And you should really fear Blue states also wanting to restructure the country because they are underwriting your failure. And then there is the "dependency ratio," read on for that explanation.

President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, and the continuing shutdown of the federal government over it, is only the most recent symbol of the increasing schism in American public life. Despite extensive debate, there is no easy solution to reconcile the so-called red America–blue America divide.

Certainly, facts don’t seem to matter to Trump’s supporters. The wall won’t stop immigration, an outstanding analysis by the Cato Institute’s David Bier shows. Nor will it affect distribution of the deadliest drugs (by far) identified by the Drug Enforcement Administration, opioid pharmaceuticals. (We might as well shut down all travel to the U.S. from the U.K. and Ireland, and build separate walls around Connecticut and New Jersey, to cut off the largest pill suppliers.)

Trump’s wall is simply a $35 billion symbol: America’s reverse Statue of Liberty, a beacon of racist hostility illuminating his supporters’ goal ofreversing demographic change. It deserves uncompromising opposition.

As Trump’s hardcore Republican base of some 50 million to 60 million voting adults becomes more extreme and intransigent and the larger, anti-Trump resistance grows, will some sort of national partitioning be the only way to avoid violent repressions […]

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