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title: ""And so that leaves secession—instead of reforming or attacking the…"
date: 2016-11-08
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# "And so that leaves secession—instead of reforming or attacking the…

*November 8, 2016 · Facebook*

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\"And so that leaves secession---instead of reforming or attacking the corrupt and corporatist system, leave it. At first glance, it seemed like a crazy idea to many, and maybe as dangerous as a revolution---after all, the last time anybody in this country seceded, they were ruthlessly attacked and their society eventually destroyed. But the more we considered it the more it seemed like a reasonable option, particularly if it was done peaceably and openly, with full democratic support of the people.\
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It is, to begin with, in the grand American tradition---the war of the colonies against the British empire was not a war of revolution, for no one wanted to take over London, but of secession, for leaving the empire; and there was even a peaceable tradition of it afterward, for Maine seceded from Massachusetts peaceably, Tennessee from North Carolina, and Kentucky and West Virginia from Virginia.\"\
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