Secession? Really guys?

You know when I see sto­ries like this I really won­der about peo­ple:

As of writ­ing, the Texas peti­tion to peace­fully “with­draw” from the United States via the White House’s open peti­tion web­page is up to 62,481 sig­na­tures, on its way to tripling the required names needed to trig­ger a response from the Obama admin­is­tra­tion. No doubt Texas’s desire to break free is a source of amuse­ment inside a White House that has mas­tered the art of belit­tling the opin­ions of its chal­lengers, but there is one not-​so-​small prob­lem here: Texas could pull it off.

There is absolutely no doubt that Texas could be it’s own coun­try as it has been before. There is also absolutely no doubt that Texas isn’t going any­where nor is any other state.

While sign­ing on to seces­sion peti­tions that mean absolutely noth­ing might be fun and a release to some, any­one pre­tend­ing this is any­thing more than a more advanced ver­sions of online polls about Lady Gaga’s next cos­tume is a fool and any news orga­ni­za­tion treat­ing is seri­ously is guilty of jour­nal­is­tic malpractice.

Yid with Lid is dis­gusted with this but points out some­thing important

But aren’t those free­doms worth fight­ing for? Even after four years of Obama can any­one point to a bet­ter coun­try in the entire world? A bet­ter polit­i­cal sys­tem? As ill as it makes me Amer­ica chose-​we lost.

When George Wash­ing­ton left the Pres­i­dency after two terms it was an incred­i­ble unprece­dented act. A peace­ful trans­fer of power. I sub­mit to you the real test came four years later when John Adams lost his re-​election bid to Thomas Jef­fer­son and peace­fully turned power over to his hate­ful oppo­si­tion. That act estab­lished an Amer­i­can tra­di­tion, we fight like hell against each other, but when we lose even to our polit­i­cal oppo­sites, like Carter to Rea­gan, or Bush To Obama power is peace­fully trans­ferred, and its cit­i­zens still work hard to pre­serve the polit­i­cal sys­tem, coun­try that gave them so much.

As psy­cho­log­i­cally sat­is­fy­ing a placebo might be, we are bet­ter served by actions than stuff like this, to wit, here is the head of the GOP city com­mit­tee the week of the defeat:

Lis­ten to this man, he lives in one of the bluest states in the coun­try, in a city that flipped against Scott Brown from 2 years ago and you don’t see him pack­ing up and giv­ing up or try­ing to break off pieces of Fitch­burg from the city. That’s not fight­ing back, that’s giv­ing up.

Man up, buck up stop this non­sense and lets move for­ward to the task at hand.