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Sunday, October 21, 2007

The Secret of My Secession

I was watching CNN the other day, and there was an interview with a group of people who would like the south to secede from the U.S. once again. Of course these idiots cited their differences with our government, saying that they are conservatives whose interests aren't represented by congress with the likes of Ted Kennedy liberals making laws.
Well you know, I thought about it, and you know what? You can have it! Every one of you idiots has my blessing to move to your own little place and start your own little country. Heck, you can even have where I live. I'll gladly move, knowing that I'll be going somewhere where there will be no confederate flags on bumpers, and no one shouting at my kids school because they think we should be taught that the world is only 6,000 years old, and that dinosaurs were on the ark. What a peaceful world that would be.
But what would life be like if conservatives and liberals actually separated into two countries? Well, maybe not so peaceful. I suspect the conservative economy would be in trouble rather quickly. Here's what I think would happen:

-The conservative blue collar workforce would virtually disappear. Union labor would all be on the liberal side, and since the conservatives wouldn't allow immigrants from Mexico, there'd be no one to build their buildings! Isn't it funny that conservatives say they don't want immigrants from Mexico, but whenever they come into power, they make labor laws that undermine unions, and that's when car loads of Mexicans start showing up on the job?

-Next? Since there would be no watchdog groups over businesses, resources would be used up at a rapid pace, and pollution would be rampant. This would leave the conservative economy in terrible shape, and the people in terrible health. And that's when it gets scary. I suspect that eyes would begin to focus on the other side of the Mason Dixon line.

-So then what would happen? Conservatives would begin to preach fear to the confederate public. They would claim to have intelligence proving that the liberal north has plans to launch an attack on the south. They would draw up some liberal conspiracy about the development of an RU 486 bomb that would force abortions on all the pregnant southerners. They would even release a propaganda film titled, "The Morning After" about some abortion holocaust. This would give them the public support to launch a preemptive strike on the north.

-And then what? I don't know. War I guess. I'm tired of typing.

yours truly,
Sid