> The lesson for today is that the progressives should realize that
> progressive empire is an oxymoron and stop wasting their limited
> resources on capturing the imperial presidency. A better strategy is
> striving for a secession of progressive states from the imperialist
> entity. A secessionist movement can not only make the implementation of
> progressive ideals attainable, albeit on a geographically smaller scale,
> but also attract support of many political undercurrents, from the
> libertarians to the states rights crowd.
Holy cow, Batman, that is an interesting take on the Civil War and the current politics. Has anybody written about the Civil War in this vein.
Wojtek is sounding like an anarchist here. Perhaps in the near future some of us will have the choice to move to the Democratic People's Republic of Baltimore?
If anybody needs to secede from the USA right now it's the District of Columbia.
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