SUMMERS OF LOVE AND WINTERS OF OUR DISCONTENT

       As we mentioned in an earlier post, a Migrant Caravan armed convoy calling itself God's Army is converging on the Chaz Zone  Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas where Antifa thugs Christian Nationalists are declaring themselves de facto independent from the Federal Government. Like their earlier Democrat counterparts in Seattle, the Texas Republican Establishment is proclaiming this a peaceful protest; though since it's late January, the GOP can't very well appropriate the same Summer of Love theme that apologists on the Left had. 

      

     The peaceful protesters in Seattle and God's Army are (at least superficially anyway) on opposite poles politically; however one thing that both popular uprisings have in common is that the Federal Government seems utterly impotent to deal with them. This has led some in the foreign press to the interesting speculation that the US may be headed for the same end as the USSR three decades ago.

    There are similarities between the two situations. It became apparent during the late 1980s that the Soviet Union was a failed State until it finally collapsed and dissolved in 1991. It's been obvious since 2020 that the United States is also a failed State. However differences end there. In the Soviet case, everyone knew that the system had failed; Americans are fighting to hold the illusion that we have not. In the USSR, the central government was the Soviet Politburo and with its bankruptcy went the nation. In the US, the central government is also bankrupt but the de facto government at the World Economic Forum and on Wall Street are very much solvent. The USSR was fortunate to have patriotic and intelligent leaders like Vladimir Putin who knew what had to be done and organized themselves to do it and restore and rebuild a functioning republic. The US has no such leadership nor organization. 

    Secession is no more a realistic possibility than 'Civil War 2.0.' The chances are much higher that we will devolve into a Technofascist dictatorship like the Israeli or Canadian Government. We are not experiencing a system collapse: what we are experiencing is more like a Controlled Demolition of the old system so that the Great Reset can take its place.

   If we look at a map of the US and statistics by State, we see the impossibility of secession. In the Iron Curtain, everyone knew that the Soviet Union was really Russia. The US States have no such dominant power and are far too interdependent upon each other and the Federal Government in DC to break up as smoothly. For one thing, most of the US is completely landlocked. The majority of State Governments are just as much failures as the Federal Government, and probably outside of California, Texas, and Florida none really even have the potential to become self-sustaining. 

   There is a Constitutional procedure for secession, though no state has ever done it. A State can secede legally if their Legislature approves it, and petitions Congress and its move is ratified and signed into law by the President. It's the same procedure as joining the Union. A State which declares its independence unilaterally is deemed under American Law to be in a state of Rebellion.

   Now let us suppose that Texas legally secedes from the Union. I don't think that the online proponents of this idea have thought about the actual aftermath very deeply. The American propensity for acting first and thinking later could have some serious consequences.

   For a start, Texas would lose all of its representation in Congress, and every Texan now holding a position in the Federal Government would lose his job and have to return to Texas. That includes the Military. Are there jobs for these people? By the way, Texas would receive no more federal subsidies for things like unemployment, Social Security, or pensions. All of the federal welfare spending would become the sole responsibility of Texas taxpayers. 

   Texas would also lose all federal funding for its National Guard (and note that all of its equipment, including future replacement parts come from the United States). It would lose all funding for Border Security, highway and road systems, waterways, the power grid, the public schools and universities, police departments, libraries, public transportation, maintaining its ports, and it would have to operate its own postal system. All of this would be paid for by Texas taxpayers. 

   The Border that the State seems so concerned about is bounded by a river that is an international waterway. Texas would have to sign a treaty with both the US and Mexico for access to it. Other rivers like the Red River in the north would also become an international boundary. All of the migrant deportations that Texas is so proud of would have to be conducted across international instead of state boundaries: indeed, Texans would need its own system of passports to travel outside the State. What about Federal transportation like Amtrak that goes through Texas? About pipelines or economic trade agreements that would have to be signed? Has anyone thought about these things?

   What about Federal property in Texas? US Military bases, federal buildings, national parks, etc. would all be evacuated and closed. Do the US taxpayers who paid for these structures receive any compensation? What about all of the US tax dollars spent in Texas since Reconstruction---will they owe the United States for any of this? 

   On the subject of money, Texas Independence would mean that the State would have to set up its own Central Bank and print and back its own currency against an international exchange-rate. When Texas briefly was independent during the 1840s, their inability to have a stable currency was one of the main reasons that they joined the United States. 

   Secession is a lot easier to talk about than actually doing, which is why it will never go beyond talking. Today's Americans are notoriously adverse to self-sacrifice and hard work: which is what any State would need to do to make itself a Republic. Wishful thinking to the contrary, Texans are no different than the rest of America in that respect. Shelby Park will end up like the Chaz Zone did and Texas is going to stay in the Union.