Secession fever!

A satirical Weekly World News story provides a springboard for Freepers' wildest Conservative fantasies:

Lots of posts like that of laotzu

I am proud, and grateful that I, & my children, are Americans.

However; we are Texans first.
(does anyone really get homesick for Nebraska?)

But it's the liberals who are elitist, see?

ParadigmLost kinda kicks things off into fantasy land:

As a serious comment to this, imagine what would happen if Texas did it. And they were very very successfull at building not only a sustainable economy, but a profitable one for the citizens there.

They would become the enemy and the cause of all of the problems left in the rest of the old USA. Texas would be the evil empire to them.

Texas would have to set up a military at once, because within 10 years the old country would attack and try to destroy it. The would have to, because a successful Texas would be exposing the lie that their socialist world was built on.

Just my opinion.

Niuhuru notes:

Texas would get all the military veterans and two thirds of the US military. The other third would be the useless wimps who want to be nice to the enemy.

which brings us to:

okay, so we wait 5/10 years, build the Texas economy and military to its peak, and then we take the rest of the country back.

It might be bloodless, but I would doubt it.

On the other hand,

It might actually be bloodless if we play our cards right.

After we get all the business people, all the brilliant minds, all we need to do is wait for them to BEG us to reunite and send our leaders into the government.

Then we set our terms and reunite. Then we diplomatically and politically entrench ourselves.

Objectivism yay! Texas is only lulling us into a false sense of security by being the 18th in per capita income!

But don't count the damned Union out yet:

They would combine with Mexico to fight Texas. Count on it, so the preparations for defense in both a military and “Hearts and Minds” way would have to start at once.

Never mind, though

Nahh.. Texas would invade Mexico, take it over and execute all the drug runners and other criminals.

Wow. Texas secedes, annexes Mexico and then 2/3 of the US Military goes over to Texas (3rd Amendment, anyone?). Later, conservatism makes Texas is so cool it just takes over the Yankee Union, whose liberalsim has caused it to fall into ruin and buggery.

Crazy people sure are crazy, eh?