21st Century Civil War

[lifelongMOgal]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

I think our country has grown too big. We should divide into five our six regional countries. The benefits of being one huge country are far outweighed by the inefficiencies.

With such a huge country, most people feel helpless and know they can really have no impact on politics.

Voter participation is very low due to a sense of helplessness. We have two powerful parties in control and both love huge government. The Dems don't even try to hide their agenda. The Reps talk about limited government, but walk the same walk as Dems - all powerful government.

1) Voter participation is low because of apathy and that people are too lazy to understand or care that with freedom comes certain responsibilities. If people took responsibility for liberty and freedom our government wouldn't be the mess that it is. We get the government we deserve and we just sit back over the past 50-60 yrs. and let this happen.

2) If this country ever breaks up it will be a failure of the great experiment of self-governance. Do you understand how serious this is? Do you understand the implications? The reasons most countries break up has to do with culteral diversity and the inability/unwillingness of peoples of the same nation to get along. Yes, this could happen if we don't agree that we are Americans first and drop the "hyphenated" identities.

We have the power to take our government back each and every election, from the municipal, to the state levels, to the national levels. We have the power to peacefully force at the ballot box the elected officials to enforce the Constitution. Just do it.

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

Where did you get that info? Try telling the guys at Lexington and Concord back in 1775 and the volunteers (Militias) at the Alamo in 1836.

The Alamo? Now there was a spectacular military victory!

As for the Revolution...

Washington dealt them much more criticism than praise in this five-month period. They were undependable, "there today, & gone tomorrow" (8:439). Militiamen went home with the arms and equipment that the government issued them. Because militia officers were interested only in concocting schemes to increase their pay, they gave little attention to discipline. Some militia troops plundered citizens under the pretense of their being Tories. Washington warned that the militia should be kept away from regular troops because it would "spread the seeds of licentiousness among the regulars" (9:127). The militia failed in several cases to provide adequate defense against British and Tory foragers. The Pennsylvania militia did not turn out in a force as large as Washington expected, and many returned home after a dispute with General William Alexander, "Lord Stirling," over the distribution of supplies. Some states planned to raise what were called "colonial" troops because they could not rely on their militias to turn out to defend the state. Washington opposed this because these forces would compete with the Continental Army for recruits.

Papers of George Washington