This morning I noticed a link posted by a member of my writer’s group to her blog, Mel’s Madness. I skipped on over to check it out and didn’t know whether to curse, laugh, or cry. She posted early and only counted 17 instances of the latest political madness sprouting from the schism created by the freaks who refuse to accept Obama as the people’s choice for President. It has gotten worse since then.
As of 3pm Central time today, there are 44 petitions on the White House blog site, We the People requesting permission to secede from the United States. Now, let me be clear, this does not mean that 44 states have formally requested secession. It means that 44 idiots have decided to express their displeasure at losing the election in this fashion. Some states, being more blessed with “statriots” than others have two petitions saying the same thing.
In fact, they all mostly say the same thing. Which makes me wonder if they were posted by actual voters from the given state or if it’s just some random person posting the same thing repeatedly for different states. Either way, it is a sad and embarrassing statement as to the intelligence of many of our people, because some of them have actually accumulated enough signatures to gain attention.
Since I didn’t want to encourage them even for testing purposes, I didn’t try to cast a vote on one of them to see if it required the voter to actually be a citizen of the state in question. It’s irrelevant anyway. The website says that a petition (there are some real ones that deserve consideration buried in the muck) must have 25,000 signatures to be considered. Ok, let’s think about that.
The least populated state in our great Union is Vermont (I know, that seems strange, actually, I was shocked. I thought sure it would be one of the north/central states where I sometimes traveled hundreds of miles without passing a town.) As of the last census, Vermont had 625,626 citizens. We have cities in this country with more people.
Do the math, people. That means that less than 1/2 of one percent of the people in Vermont need to sign on to this travesty to get consideration by someone in the administration. Once more, I must clarify. Vermont is one of the few states that Does Not have such a petition.
Take this on out logically and you realize that these petitions can’t be considered representative of the majority of our people. To say the opinion of our most populated state, California, with more than 37 million citizens is represented by 25,000 signatures is a farce.
It is amazing and rather frightening to think there is even the slightest possibility that someone might take seriously all this senseless clogging of what is meant to be a path for national discourse. I was tempted to say, as Mel did, let them go. But I am a citizen of one of those states and I don’t want to move.
It seems sad now, that someone asked me before the election where we should immigrate to if Romney won. They were joking, but I couldn’t come up with a choice. Even though our country is far from perfect, it is still better than most of the alternatives. I respectfully suggest that anyone who doesn’t like our governmental process has the freedom to leave on their own. They don’t have to drag their whole state along with them.
The only thing that frightens me is that these folks actually belive what they are saying. And it’s their fear that is talking. When someone is that fearful, they do really weird things. Let’s hope some folks on the right can start moving their brethren to a calmer place. And I mean that psychologically not geographically.