Revisiting
a poll from a few years ago
reinforces my belief that the US is headed for political dissolution within the lifetimes of most people reading this. In the latter part of 2014, Reuters-Ipsos asked a huge number of respondents (N = 16,668) if they supported or opposed “your state peacefully withdrawing from the USA and the federal government”.
The following graph shows the percentages, by selected demographic characteristics, who supported the idea. “Don’t know” answers, which constituted 23.5% of all responses, are excluded in the graph which presents the results dichotomously:
At 87, the Muslim sample size is small, so don’t read it conclusively. Instead, take it suggestively–suggestive of exactly what you assumed to be the case. And the 2%? Maybe they should’ve thought twice about destroying the nation that was the greatest thing that ever happened to them.
This poll was conducted during Obama’s presidency, nearly a year before Donald Trump shocked the world by announcing his candidacy. Even during the Obama administration large numbers of non-whites–especially “new Americans”–liked the idea of getting out. Imagine what those figures would look like in 2018.
The warning that secession will lead to civil war has always struck me as highly unlikely. That nearly half of the country’s armed forces support political dissolution further confirms it.
If Texas goes, blue states cheer because the presidency indefinitely becomes theirs while red states begin planning on how to follow Texas’ lead. If California goes, red states cheer because the presidency indefinitely becomes theirs while blue states begin planning on how to follow California’s lead.
One reason secession strikes many as practically unthinkable at first blush is because the political zeitgeist is still overwhelmingly shaped and controlled by boomers. The generational divide is actually starker than the racial divide is. When the boomers exit the stage, the possibility will suddenly seem all too real.
To people who grew up in a country of 100 million that was 90% white with a minority that had been here from the beginning, the thing made sense. To people trying to survive inside an empire of over 330 million people who are religiously, ethnically, financially, linguistically, racially, politically, and culturally divided–bitterly divided–it makes no sense. About the only thing keeping the it together now is a mix of inertia and economic expediency.
Political dissolution is an idea whose time has come. Support for it exists all over the dissident right–Heartiste, Z-Man, Vox Day, Julian Langness, Jared Taylor. Our favorite septuagenarian is even thinking it over. It’s not just gaining traction out here on the political frontier, though. The Federalist recently carried a column in support of the idea.
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The author of this essay makes a great point that there’s a huge generational divide, with boomers who are largely Civic Nationalists being opposed to balkanization. Once they die off, “political dissolution becomes imminent”. The Balk Right is a movement of the rising generation, and the destiny of our near future.
US political dissolution a question of when and how, not if
The following graph shows the percentages, by selected demographic characteristics, who supported the idea. “Don’t know” answers, which constituted 23.5% of all responses, are excluded in the graph which presents the results dichotomously:
At 87, the Muslim sample size is small, so don’t read it conclusively. Instead, take it suggestively–suggestive of exactly what you assumed to be the case. And the 2%? Maybe they should’ve thought twice about destroying the nation that was the greatest thing that ever happened to them.
This poll was conducted during Obama’s presidency, nearly a year before Donald Trump shocked the world by announcing his candidacy. Even during the Obama administration large numbers of non-whites–especially “new Americans”–liked the idea of getting out. Imagine what those figures would look like in 2018.
The warning that secession will lead to civil war has always struck me as highly unlikely. That nearly half of the country’s armed forces support political dissolution further confirms it.
If Texas goes, blue states cheer because the presidency indefinitely becomes theirs while red states begin planning on how to follow Texas’ lead. If California goes, red states cheer because the presidency indefinitely becomes theirs while blue states begin planning on how to follow California’s lead.
One reason secession strikes many as practically unthinkable at first blush is because the political zeitgeist is still overwhelmingly shaped and controlled by boomers. The generational divide is actually starker than the racial divide is. When the boomers exit the stage, the possibility will suddenly seem all too real.
To people who grew up in a country of 100 million that was 90% white with a minority that had been here from the beginning, the thing made sense. To people trying to survive inside an empire of over 330 million people who are religiously, ethnically, financially, linguistically, racially, politically, and culturally divided–bitterly divided–it makes no sense. About the only thing keeping the it together now is a mix of inertia and economic expediency.
Political dissolution is an idea whose time has come. Support for it exists all over the dissident right–Heartiste, Z-Man, Vox Day, Julian Langness, Jared Taylor. Our favorite septuagenarian is even thinking it over. It’s not just gaining traction out here on the political frontier, though. The Federalist recently carried a column in support of the idea.
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