Do you think secession movements will ever gain serious ground again?

[LBJ Revivalist]

I go on right leaning boards and A LOT of the talk there is secession, or that the federal government is tyrannical, or specifically Obama. I've seen Obama on those boards compared to Mao and Nero, literally. I've seen them argue that our government is worse now than the Crown was in 1775.

Do you think this is simply right wing hyperbole, simply rhetoric and angry speech due to a Democrat being in the White House, or do you think there is truly some deep division in this country? Do you think that the idea of secession will ever take hold again or bear fruit, as in violence or even the actual secession of a state?

[LBJ Revivalist]

I don't know why people here want to associate so much negativity to secession, outside of their centralized government ideology.

Those who love a UNITED States despise secessionist ideals. There is a firm line between being supportive of state's rights and wanting to sever union with this nation totally.

[LBJ Revivalist]

I don't know why people here want to associate so much negativity to secession, outside of their centralized government ideology.

Those who love a UNITED States despise secessionist ideals. There is a firm line between being supportive of state's rights and wanting to sever union with this nation totally.

     However, there is no requirement that one who loves the United States opposes secession. Loving an area does not necessarily mean wanting to be politically joined to it. I am sure that there are many Americans who love the United Kingdom, but how many of them do you think want to be united with the U.K. under one government?

If you don't want to be politically joined with the US, why do you live here?