These 25 United States

Ron White told about flying on an 8-seat commuter plane when the pilot announced (by yelling over his shoulder) that he was losing engine oil pressure, and would have to turn back.  Ron'd been drinking since lunchtime, so when everyone was freaking, he was like  "Take it down! I don't care!" The guy next to him was losing his mind, which caused White to surmise that "he must have had something to live for."  It's in that spirit that I continue. I was much taken with Bill Whittles post election monologue "A New Beginning," the first 28 minutes anyway.  He makes several points;  one  is that he's "not talking about revolution, but the direct opposite of that."  Another is that we must not overtly challenge the government, but run  parallel structures to it.  And, he  urges that we  make sure not to do anything that will give government the excuse to throw us in jail. It was a brilliant ad libbed presentation,  made while the last Wisconsin ballots were still in transit from Illinois.  It provided for me a sense of calm  when I had been, frankly, coming apart at the seams.  Still, I end up asking myself, to what end?  In describing, rather brilliantly,  the mindset of the people who now run things, it's clear that there is no changing those minds.  These are morally corrupt, "live for the moment"  people who have never known deprivation, and who have ceded control of their lives to government institutions.  We are now then a nation of 25 states, but with  a cancer gnawing our borders. There are other sage commentaries about what  happened, or rather, describing it beforehand.   We are familiar with them, and are among the  primary source documents of this nation's founding,  e.g., these from T.J.  “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.” “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure” We have a choice then.  Docile compliance with dictates from a government entirely at odds with the constitution it had sworn to uphold; or refusal.  It seems to me that the latter course first requires, as it did with the founders, a realization and acceptance that living under the heels of this current and lawless regime is intolerable.  And like them,  be willing to risk all,  pledging life and property to it's cause.  We have heard it from all the usual suspects – Sheila Jackson Lee, Julián Castro, and other Texas Democrats – but now even Jeb Bush is predicting that the Lone Star state will be blue by 2016.-text message First step—we who are caught living behind enemy lines, so to speak, must relocate to the United States.  It will not be easy leaving, in some cases, family behind, but it's imperative. Only by swelling the remaining free states with like minded people (and votes) can we establish state governments willing to formally expel Blue states, cutting all ties and obligations with, and to Obamerica. And it must be done NOW.  I'm a cup half full guy, so while some may look at the map of the new United states and say, "we're surrounded by Obamunists,"  I say, "We have cut their lines of communication!"