I wrote yesterday’s commentary the day before Rush brought up obliquely mentioned secession so understand the context of my comments is the unique independent Texas secession speculation we uniquely share as Texans. I favor the traditional Texas sentiment but believe it an issue almost frivolous in that its accomplishment is near impossible as long as Texans are relatively well off.
As you’d expect someone with the Texas Nationalist Movement took great exception and wrote: “It’s a shame that you’re so dismissive of an issue near and dear to so many Texans.” He claims there to be a mountain of support and evidence it can and should be done.
Significantly large numbers of Texans will not even fight against legally weak decrees…
A quick reply is that Texas secession and independence is a great topic for talk over coffee but that’s about it and about as deep as the “mountain of support” goes.
I might believe an independent Texas possible if, after Abbott’s suspension of laws and decrees (and actions of others that equally violated the state and federal constitutions,) several hundred thousand Texans, armed and willing to, or using those arms, had seized the Governors’ Mansion as well and many city halls and courthouses.
San Jacinto Monument
Significantly large numbers of Texans will not even fight against legally weak decrees destroying their businesses, livelihoods, and taking away their fundamental rights, as well as the economic legacies they are building for their children due to a virus but, somehow Texans would take serious action that would imperil for years, likely generations, at an exponentially greater level than imposed WuFlu restrictions, every single element of their legal, economic, and social lives?
Texans didn’t build the San Jacinto Monument to honor the talkers sitting back in the safety of New Orleans coffee houses or pamphleteers, no matter how influential, who hid behind pseudonyms. That monument, taller than that to George Washington in D.C., honors men and women who risked, and often gave, their lives to move ideas into action.
Writing on the Internet, often hiding behind a pseudonym is not serious rebellion of significance.
Secession comes up each time we lose elections; it was hot after Obama won. However, there is little evidence that significant numbers of Texans are willing to risk their lives, physically and economically, to end current virus tyranny, much less evidence they would risk even more for the notion of Texas independence from the United States of America.
You’re making an assumption, maybe valid, maybe not, that deadly war will be the result. Do you think Biden will roll tanks into Austin? That’s not how things work any more.
No such assumption is implicit in what I stated. You clearly do not understand the point, maybe I’ve not made it clearly enough but I cannot write to reach every level and perspective.