The Vermont Secession movement is alive and well. I think it’s terribly selfish of them to not invite the rest of New England along. We could detach Fairfield County if they wanted, so our sole Republican Congressperson would feel more at home.
The folks in Vermont have it right:
“The argument for secession is that the U.S. has become an empire that is essentially ungovernable _ it’s too big, it’s too corrupt and it no longer serves the needs of its citizens,” said Rob Williams, editor of Vermont Commons, a quarterly newspaper dedicated to secession.
“We have electoral fraud, rampant corporate corruption, a culture of militarism and war,” Williams said. “If you care about democracy and self-governance and any kind of representative system, the only constitutional way to preserve what’s left of the Republic is to peaceably take apart the empire.”
In truth, this country can’t last forever. Someday it will disintegrate, or descend into tyranny. Disintegration is certainly preferable.
Since we all know that nothing lasts forever, most of us would agree that at some point, this country will no longer exist, at least in anywhere near its present form. But we tend to believe that day is in the far off distant future, eons away. But that may not be the case. One of the things that struck me as I plowed through the Story of Civilization, that massive tome by Will and Ariel Durant, is how often a seemingly invincible society was swept aside, with little warning, in the historical blink of an eye.
So I’m quite serious when I advocate secession, except that I think a New England nation (we could invite New York as a member, but the Yankees must go) would be a better breakaway state than valiant little Vermont.
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