Quote Originally Posted by Rucker61 View Post
There's no "Glory" in this secession.

I saw a comment that signing one of these petitions might be a legally enforceable citizenship resignation. I'll leave it to the legal experts here to comment.
I think the mistake a lot of liberal folks are making today is writing off the dissatisfaction that spawned this recent desire for secession as tantamount to a tantrum because the candidate of a certain party lost. In reality, the underlying theme is the realization that a perceptibly socialistic administration has driven our economy, free market philosophy, and inalienable rights toward ineffectuality, and those who recognize the inevitable outcome would rather leave and start over than see it get any worse. It's not bitterness, it is admitting being outnumbered by communists and cutting one's losses. The Glory to be found is in this sentiment from a seemingly forgotten document:

"--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."