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Old 07-16-2014, 06:06 AM
 
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I think we are headed for a separation. The 2 sides pretty much hate each other. We need to form a blue nation of cities and a red nation of rural counties. The rednecks will control the water, electricity, oil and coal so they will be okay.
You forgot the food. We rednecks produce the food for the nation as well.

Sounds like a win-win situation. "Blue" states have nearly all of the agriculture, coal, oil, land based nukes, and electricity production. The "red" states can keep all of the welfare recipients, unemployed, illegals, and the states dominated by large urban centers.
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Old 07-16-2014, 06:13 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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If Mr. Buchanan claimed the sun rose in the East I would not believe him. He has a desperate need to be important and is actually not very.
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Old 07-16-2014, 06:15 AM
 
Location: North America
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I have never met a single one of these extremists. Almost everyone I know are somewhere in the middle. A few are either left or right leaning. May be half a dozen are strongly left or right.

Neither have I, the only cries for separation have come from the internet forum heroes.
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Old 07-16-2014, 06:51 AM
 
Location: Gone
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Obama truly the manchurian candidate.

America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Lap it up, must be good stuff since the right rarely asks whats in it, pssst, 80% propaganda, enjoy
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Old 07-16-2014, 06:58 AM
 
Location: Phoenix
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You forgot the food. We rednecks produce the food for the nation as well.

Sounds like a win-win situation. "Blue" states have nearly all of the agriculture, coal, oil, land based nukes, and electricity production. The "red" states can keep all of the welfare recipients, unemployed, illegals, and the states dominated by large urban centers.
I said blue cities and red rural areas and you're talking states. The truth is most of the areas that have the agriculture, oil, coal, electricity production are in red areas. Even using the states as the divider, you're claiming that the blue states have all the oil when the oil is all in red states such as Texas, Alaska, Louisiana, Oklahoma, N. Dakota.

Did you see the county breakdown for red and blue counties? Even in Cali, the big ag producing counties are in red counties and the same is true in Washington state.
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Old 07-16-2014, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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What are you talking about? Most people are moderates.
Indeed. I am one of them.
Anonymous posters on an Internet forum do not constitute a majority.
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Old 07-16-2014, 07:37 AM
 
Location: Central Nebraska
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I said blue cities and red rural areas and you're talking states. The truth is most of the areas that have the agriculture, oil, coal, electricity production are in red areas. Even using the states as the divider, you're claiming that the blue states have all the oil when the oil is all in red states such as Texas, Alaska, Louisiana, Oklahoma, N. Dakota.

Did you see the county breakdown for red and blue counties? Even in Cali, the big ag producing counties are in red counties and the same is true in Washington state.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s the News Media would show the states in Red and Blue on Election Night to show which Candidate carried which state. Red and Blue were taken from the Flag and which Party was which was changed each Election. Then in the 1990s the Media got a lot more biased and decided to keep it at Republicans Red and Democrats Blue. They did this because they wanted to give viewers the idea that Democrats were Ture Blue and Noble Blue Bloods while Republicans should be thought of as Ignorant Rednecks Always Angry. Also, since Red was the color otherwise associated with Communism it was an added little salt on a wound they liked irritating Conservatives with. Our friend wants to reverse the colors to what they ought to be with the Socialist-Communist-Progressive-Liberals as Red and Conservative Patriots upholding Traditional Values as Blue. While I agree with what he'd like to do it would cause confusion at this point.
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Old 07-16-2014, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Central Nebraska
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When you throw a rock in a henhouse the hen that squawks is the one you hit. Boys, I believe we hit a whole passel of 'em!
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Old 07-16-2014, 07:41 AM
 
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Did you truely expect anybody to read that long old thing? Why didn't you just sum it up in one paragraph and we could discus it from there? I'll just discus your title.

The odds are better than 50-50 we'll see some kind of armed uprising before Obama is out of office. At this point we're simply waiting for some incident to spark it off. Had there been even one shot fired by either side at the Bundy stand-off that would have been all it would have taken. The country would swiftly fly apart and this Red County / Blue County map of the 2000 Presidential electionis probably the best guide to what the country will look like in a matter of weeks:




Without firing a shot the Rebnecks will have the Liberals broken up, cut off, and surrounded. It will not be necessary to fight a bloody civil war--at least not on the part of the Redneck Militias. All they need to do is set up a few roadblocks. In a week the grocery store shelves will be empty, in two weeks all the food at home will be gone, and by the third week canibalism will set in. The cities will errupt into massive rioting for all of their food comes from Redneck Country. So does all their fuel. The Rednecks need only turn off a few valves and in a week the carbon footprint of the cities will be well-nigh zero and there will be no more traffic jams. You're welcome. Nearly all their electricity is generated in power plants in Redneck Counties. By flipping a few switches the Rednecks will relieve the Liberals of all the guilt brought about by using all that electricity. This means the fan that circulates heating and air conditioning through the building will stop working. Liberal politicians will see the handwriting on the wall and catch a flight out of town while there's still aviation fuel at the airport. Within a month every athiest in the city will be praying earnestly to God that the Redneck Militias please enter the city and restore Law and Order. They'll agree to every demand the Rednecks make: ban Abortion, teach Creationism in the schools--ANYTHING. Liberalism will disappear from American politics for the next three generations.

Nothing against Nebraska but you are really out there. Are you hoping for trouble?
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Old 07-16-2014, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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Seriously, did you even read the article you posted?

"Speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Albuquerque in 2001, George W. Bush declared that, as Mexico was a friend and neighbor, “It’s so important for us to tear down our barriers and walls that might separate Mexico from the United States.”

Bush succeeded. And during his tenure, millions from Mexico exploited his magnanimity to violate our laws, trample upon our sovereignty, walk into our country and remain here."

Pat sounds like the typical tighty whitey RWer who's afraid that he will no longer be in the majority.

He also dribbles this:

But we are no longer that “band of brethren.” We are no longer one unique people “descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion.”


uh, Pat, we never were descended from the same ancestors, and practicing the same religion.

Jesus, the ignorance.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. The notion that this country will maintain the same standard of living while letting in hordes of illiterate peasants from Central America is laughable but hey let's pretend it will work. Don't want to be racist.
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