Averting civil war should be first priority

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The Texas border crisis may be taking America to a place that it has been before and doesn’t want to go again.

The Supreme Court’s surprising 5-4 decision to disallow Texas final say on who crosses its border was unexpected, at least from the standpoint of which conservative Justices sided against the Lone Star state. When looking at the question from a purely ideological standpoint, their logic was understandable. The question is, “Was it practical, considering the current landscape of the country?”

Country’s Division Reminiscent of 1860

“The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states.” Texas Governor, Greg Abbott professed. Ouch! That language is strikingly similar to the very first line of the secession ordinances passed by slave states when they purported to leave the union.

According to some interpretations, this “compact”-not national sovereignty, but a contract among states and the federal government- constituted the United States of America. The secession ordinances asserted that the federal government, and the president especially, owed certain constitutional duties to the states under this contract.

President Abraham Lincoln strongly opposed this so-called compact. He contended in his first inaugural address, that “The Union of these States is perpetual” under the Constitution. The United States does not form a compact but is a “country” bound together by “national fabric.”

Most Southerners did not share his point of view.

Lincoln’s perception was likewise not supported by all Northerners. Secretary of State, William Seward would have been happy to allow the seven Gulf States that initially seceded, to leave peacefully. The former New York Governor equated the seven departing states to 14 Democratic Senate votes. Seward was an expansionist. He saw these Senators as the single greatest deterrent from achieving that objective.

This factor alone may have sufficiently motivated Lincoln to resupply Fort Sumter. Had he merely withdrawn the small force the horrific war might have been avoided altogether.

Lincoln initially positioned the war as “a battle against secession, not slavery.” (“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it,” he wrote in 1862, “and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it.”)

The Emancipation Proclamation came later, in 1863. Its purpose was to keep Great Britain and France from aiding the Confederacy.

The Rewriting of American History

150-plus years later, revisionist historians have recreated America’s most tragic event, with a different and potentially dangerous twist: That it was exclusively a war to end the institution of slavery and racial injustice. Citing “Critical Race Theory” they have revived bitter revelations of the past. The “1619 Project” and the “Woke” ideology in general have pitted Americans against Americans.

As would be anticipated, these new assertions spawned a reaction from the other side. Introducing what is now referred to as “The Great Replacement Theory,” they accused the left of attempting to change the nation’s demography by facilitating wholesale minority immigration.

This argument is finding traction. Joe Biden is now considered the most recent “tool” of the far left to change the voting outcome in a few key states. He is considered by his opponents as “history’s greatest threat to our Democratic Republic.”

It’s not merely a Republican position. Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suggests that the SCOTUS erred.

“Texas is right. Biden’s failure to secure the border leaves states no choice but to take matters into their own hands,” Kennedy wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

25 governors concur with Abbott. It is believed that as many as 34 states might ultimately join Texas. At best, this would put the United States in “article five” land! At worst, it might signal an end to the United States as we know it!

The Third Option-Continent Realignment

Seward’s reasoning was anchored in Senate makeup. Had South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas departed, he would have had an easier time getting his proposed legislation through Congress. In his mind, these states were the land of “heat and mosquitos.” He considered them dominated by interests that combined, “cotton, slaves and arrogance.”

Much has changed since Lincoln and Seward’s day. States supporting Texas see a Federal Government that is essentially run by a Washington D.C.-based administrative state. The Heritage Foundation has recently pointed out that “95%” of the administrative state’s political contributions have gone to Biden’s party. There is a prevailing paradigm that Abbott’s party is perpetually faced with “wind in their face.”

There is also a growing realization that the core of Biden’s party comes from the six New England states. Currently, they account for nearly 1/8 of the Senate seats, specifically 11 Democrats and an aged RINO. Their combined population is less than Florida’s!

From Seward’s perspective, the easiest path toward passage of desired legislation would be to “look to the North.” Considering Canada’s own division coupled with its fragility, a “Texas-sized nation, with the population of Florida,” appropriately dubbed, “New England,” would have advantages.

Greater New England would include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Rhode Island and Vermont. About 93% of the population of the six states and four provinces can trace their ancestry back to the British Isles. Maine-based author; Colin Woodward identified this part of North America as “Yankeedom.” Their first order of business would be to convince the Danes to sell Greenland to them. From there it would an almost certain seat on the Arctic Council.

Sound preposterous? It’s practical. New England’s “Yankee uniformity” would make for a comfortable conversion for English-speaking, European immigrants. Its population would grow dramatically, providing the ultimate Western respite for overcrowded Great Britain! New England would set its own immigration standards, undeterred by politicians thousands of miles distant.

With 44 remaining states, a Senate super majority would be in sight. An end to the administrative state would become inevitable. Better yet, an increasingly likely confrontation would become avoidable.

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