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In the discussion thread: If blue states seceded we'd have great health care at half the cost [View all]

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 11:22 PM

37. Hmmm, 3,600,000 out of 26,600,000... 14% of the population...

No, I think it is much easier for you to move out of there. I mean really, nothing has changed for centuries down there, so where's the upside? Why should we continue to expend the vast resources your state sucks up while returning nothing but the occasional exceptional individual and an endless supply of grief and stupidity.

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If blue states seceded we'd have great health care at half the cost [View all]	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	OP
What do you do with states that go both ways?	taterguy	Aug 2012	#1
They can join the blues if	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#2
Manny, I like you and even agree with you a lot of the time but no thanks.	MuseRider	Aug 2012	#3
I'm with you on that.	Blue_In_AK	Aug 2012	#5
It feels odd somehow on this site	MuseRider	Aug 2012	#6
Ted was a friendly guy,	Blue_In_AK	Aug 2012	#9
He certainly was a friendly guy!	MuseRider	Aug 2012	#14
If we could just get rid of all the nasty TV and radio that locks people into an ideology	JDPriestly	Aug 2012	#52
Aww thanks!	MuseRider	Aug 2012	#63
I get what you're saying	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#12
It will be ugly but let it happen.	MuseRider	Aug 2012	#17
You seem to have missed the point. Manny never suggested or implied force.	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#15
I think y'all need to get over yourselves.	MuseRider	Aug 2012	#22
I hate to break this to you but...	cherokeeprogressive	Aug 2012	#31
Not anyone that doesn't agree with me, anyone that denies the reality in front of them and then	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#34
You just proved my point better than I ever could.	cherokeeprogressive	Aug 2012	#35
I don't see that you had any point other than the tried and true, "you will submit to our delusion	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#39
You are exploding irony meters all over DU. nt	hack89	Aug 2012	#61
Oh and about that deportation thing; No, force and coercion are what your compatriots do. We think	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#40
Perhaps we could call it New Somalia rather than Hell-On-Earth?	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#33
Good point. I'm sure they'll pick their own name.	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#38
we know one thing	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#43
Self-Satisfied Yankee Make Joke. It Is To Laugh.	Paladin	Aug 2012	#65
Sorry! I assumed the Rightys would pick the name	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#68
Davistan	UnrepentantLiberal	Aug 2012	#69
While Manny makes provision for the infirm in his hypothetical proposal, he makes no such	coalition_unwilling	Aug 2012	#74
I second that.	Jawja	Aug 2012	#58
Except ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#4
No.	aquart	Aug 2012	#7
I'm in a red state Manny..	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#8
I'll drive down and pick you up	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#10
I appreciate that but what I'm really saying is that we all live in a web of relationships..	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#21
I get that. You're right. So how can we help you guys turn this around?	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#26
I wish I had a clue Manny, I really do..	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#29
Sign me up! I'd move back home to Washington in a heartbeat if secession was happening.	Zorra	Aug 2012	#11
I'm in	Teamster Jeff	Aug 2012	#13
Shouldn't be hard.	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#16
One of the funniest movie movements ever!	Brigid	Aug 2012	#70
This assumes the Blue Govt. listens to its people	kenny blankenship	Aug 2012	#18
I think the dynamic would change	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#27
Please stop trying to divide our country.	Tx4obama	Aug 2012	#19
Our state works fine right now	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#23
If you want things to change in the South then YOU should move down here and bring a million more de	MuseRider	Aug 2012	#24
Hmmm, 3,600,000 out of 26,600,000... 14% of the population...	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#37
Oh that is silly.	Tx4obama	Aug 2012	#44
Yes, we need more liberals in Texas.	Manifestor_of_Light	Aug 2012	#47
Yep. All of our BIGGEST counties (except for one) went for Obama.	Tx4obama	Aug 2012	#50
Talk of succession is highly OFFENSIVE to Democrats that live in red states. n/t	Tx4obama	Aug 2012	#20
Triangulation is highly OFFENSIVE to Democrats	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#25
I have NEVER voted for a Republican politician. Not once. Not ever.	Manifestor_of_Light	Aug 2012	#49
Lol.	JoeyT	Aug 2012	#56
I'm in a state at least as red as yours and it doesn't offend me..	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#30
It may be highly offensive to you, but please leave the rest of us out of it. n/t	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#36
Bwah! "Government is the problem and now you have cholera."	valerief	Aug 2012	#28
While I don't agree...it brings up the entire point of universal heath care...	mom2threegirls	Aug 2012	#32
Red state legislature should have classes on how to organize healthcare	Rosa Luxemburg	Aug 2012	#41
Do we really need another 3rd world country on our southern border?	baldguy	Aug 2012	#42
We would HAVE to charge a near-100% exit tax on the rich, though	BanTheGOP	Aug 2012	#45
I pray every day for secession	Ter	Aug 2012	#46
Here's something that will make heads spin	RZM	Aug 2012	#48
Why would you assume that this dedicated progressive nation would handle, or more	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#53
That depends on where you're talking about	RZM	Aug 2012	#54
No, you're right about that. I think white liberal racism is worse than the old fashioned	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#55
Because that is how those blue areas are handling it now? nt	hack89	Aug 2012	#62
+1	JoeyT	Aug 2012	#57
Friendly divorce/irreconcilable differences?	moondust	Aug 2012	#51
Secession talk just makes my blood boil.	Skidmore	Aug 2012	#59
^^ This ^^	cordelia	Aug 2012	#60
I am glad you said that.	MuseRider	Aug 2012	#64
+1	great white snark	Aug 2012	#67
Why don't we ALL actually take over the means of production.	Fantastic Anarchist	Aug 2012	#66
Good idea...but I think we'd need a few nukes to do that....just so they don't fuck with us.	RagAss	Aug 2012	#72
Nice thought, but nobody is seceding from the union.	WI_DEM	Aug 2012	#71
Read this new book on this topic:	Brigid	Aug 2012	#73

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