Reply #40: Do You Realize...

[Stand and Fight]

Do you realize the sheer gravity of what you are saying? Secession from this nation which has stood for over two and a quarter centuries... I don't know about the rest of you, but I think it is wholly irresponsible to even entertain this notion without giving clear thought to the state of things. I hate the course that our nation as taking as much as the next person, but I am a long way from suggesting that we break off into a separate state. Yes, things are bad and I agree that we are very much heading toward a one party state, but we have to fight against that for the good of the country, for the good of democracy, for the good of the world. Talk like this is focusing more on the problems rather than trying to come up with viable solutions. I subscribe to the school of thought that says this last election was stolen, but I would never go as far as to break away from my fatherland for that reason.

In many ways, I feel the left is just as guilty as the right in some respects. I mean, for the love of God, was it necessary to go so far as to remove prayer from school, to teach in schools that homosexuality is okay, or to do as some of you are doing now -- entertaining thoughts of secession. I hate to be the drum beater here, but someone has to speak up as the voice of reason. I'm with you guys -- I think the current presidential administration and the far right-wing agenda is going way too far. Further than any left wing agenda ever attempted to go in this country, but I don't think that it has gotten so bad as to even bring up such notions as these. We have a responsibility as patriots to exhaust every means at our disposal to fight the insanity that seems to be gripping the majority of America. We find ourselves in an unjust war that we cannot win -- it is a war of ideologies and history has shown us that such wars can drag on forever with no clear victor.

Furthermore, let's talk about unstable individual nations having WMDs -- do you really want the Bush administration and like administrations in the future to have such weapons to threaten the world with? I would certainly hope not! Let's not discount the fact that this current circus of dangerous fundamentalist would stop at nothing to keep power -- part of having power is the ability to control the lives of others. Do you really think, for a minute, that they'd let the so-called blue states go without declaring it a holy war?!? I don't. I would not put it past them. Their minds are so corrupted by misconceptions of reality, that they will not hesitate to go from calling you their country men to calling you traitors, domestic terrorist. We must be the party of moderation that will seek to fight the opposition, but to do so in a democratic SANE fashion.

Lastly, if we even were to somehow dislodge ourselves from the U.S., we'd be no better than that hypocrite in the White House, because we'd be turning our backs on those who can't fight or lack the courage to do so. That would make us no better than this administration, because we would only be concerned about ourselves. We know that we are the on the right side in this current debate of morals. It is imperative that we fight against the madness overtaking OUR country, lest we be swept up in a maelstrom of hellish proportions.