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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, September 9, 2013

WTF People?

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/group-advocates-secession-for-5-western-maryland-counties

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/colorado-county-puts-initiative-to-secede-from-state

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/county-board-votes-to-secede-from-northern-california

Secession talk shouldn't come of anything, but as the GOP increasingly makes itself irrelevant by embracing its whackaloon base, you could see more of this.

Secession is the whiner's way out, the political equivalent of trying to take your ball and go home, except it's not your ball.

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