WE Should ALLOW People To Secede Or, Failing That, To Revolt

Michael Geary sent me a link with the notation, “Worth the read.”

And wow, was it ever: 

I am an American, a New Hampshirewoman, a lover of liberty,  …

My enemies are in a word, communists. Modern communists do not usually call themselves such. They do not talk about workers rising up and seizing the Means of Production.

Instead, modern communists adopt a rhetorical stance where they assume that all people and all property are ALREADY COLLECTIVIZED, then calmly discuss what WE should do:

– What WE should ALLOW people to own.

– What WE should ALLOW people to do.

– What WE should ALLOW people to say.

– How WE should ALLOW people to use their property.

– How WE should ALLOW people to conduct their businesses,

– … and WHO should be ALLOWED,

– … and WHERE.

– How WE should ALLOW people to raise their children.

– Who should be GIVEN which roles within society.

– etc.

The issue under discussion is always something sympathetic, something most decent people would like to see fixed: Intergenerational poverty, police brutality, environmental degradation, bigotry, violence.

But the solutions modern communists put forward are rarely passive, and they are never liberating. …

The author continues from there, gathering steam until she calls for revolution:

Now, in the 2020 election, the fraud and manipulation became so glaringly obvious that, at the time of writing, at least 47% of all Americans, regardless of party loyalty, understand that the election was stolen and Joe Biden is illegitimate. Somehow though, it is still a long shot that Donald Trump, the person who has done more to expose the mendacity and incompetence of the ruling party and institutions than anyone else, will be seated as President.

Every one of those Americans who understands this must realize that this is it. This is the last moment for the American Republic, the last time we will even have a glimmer of a chance of an honest election result, and the last time any opposition to modern communism will be afforded space in the public square. And yet, neither I nor most of you are going to do anything about this situation that might risk our present status or comfort. …

Oh, but we must:

Even so, if the fight were on, if the majority of Americans who this past election shows are opposed to creeping collectivism were on the march, I would risk it all to join them. No comfort, no wealth, not even life itself is as important as preserving the possibility of human freedom. …

Our job is to get that majority “on the march.” But how? How can we move Americans such as this wise patriot—and we ourselves—into the streets to defend freedom? Will an inadvertent spark akin to Lexington and Concord explode into the Second Revolution? Or a coordinated effort a la the Continental Congress?

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12:08 pm on December 19, 2020