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Originally Posted by cabo35
An old friend sent me this. It is apparently gaining traction as it spreads through the blogosphere. Is it indicative of increasing polarization in America?
Is it evidence of an awakening of the "silent majority?"
An update from Oklahoma.
The state law passed today (April 19), 37 to 9, had a few liberals in the mix, an amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol. The feds in DC, along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake. Hey this is a conservative state, based on Christian values...! Guess what..........We did it anyway.
We recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal immigrants, and ship them back to where they came from, unless they want to get a green card and become an American citizen. They all scattered. Hope we didn't send any of them to your state. This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and the ACLU, they said it would be a mistake. Guess what..........we did it anyway..
Yesterday we passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all illegals to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative purposes. Pelosi said it was unconstitutional. Guess what........We did it anyway.
Several weeks ago, we passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign state, not under the Federal Government directives. That, for your information, makes Oklahoma and Texas the only states to do so. Guess what.........More states are likely to follow. Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, both Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia, just to name a few. Should Mississippi act, so will Florida. Save your confederate money, it appears the South is about to rise up once again.
The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns. Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles. I'm sure that was a set back for the Kennedys and Ms Pelosi. Guess what..........We did it anyway.
By the way, Obama does not like any of this. Guess what....who cares...were doing it anyway
In my lifetime, I cannot remember when "we the people" have been so passionately divided. Will this division get even more sinister as we move away from traditional values and into a form of government that so many are so suspicious and resentful of? Where will the polarization end in the best case scenario and the worst case scenario? Is there a soft landing in middle ground or do we as a nation implode?
What interesting times we live in.
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I think the political divisons have always been there. Reading documents and commentary from the 1760-1780 period shows quite a bit of division, as not as many as the history books would make one believe were truly for revolution and cessation from England.
What we have today, absent from any other generation, is instant and global communications media which allows everyone access to everyone else. That access level just makes the obvious (political division) more available to commentary by the average citizen, and that commentary actually finding a willing audience.
States can pass all the laws they want, to include setting public flogging for littering if the states so desire. Until the laws are challenged in court, and a final decision is accepted at some level (If a constitutional challenge, the U.S. Supreme Court has finality if appealed that far), the laws are the laws.
As far as cessation of states, that's not going to happen any more here than it happened in Canada when the Quebecois pushed for it. When the solution is simply "vote the bums out," that's still the approach to take.
We don't need a revolution - we need an electorate that doesn't act like sheep.