The Loons Speak

Post-election and the loons are out in force: I speak here of the movement in various places to secede from the union. Apparently there are a whole bunch of states with at least ten thousand signatures on such idiotic petitions, once again proving that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of (at least some) of the American public. 

Gonna form your own country, Alabama? Crimson Tideland? How about you, Tex? Lone Starbeeria?

Bundle 'em altogther and you get ... Dumbfuckistan. 

Or maybe ... Bubbaland ...

Hey, you there, boy, lemme see yore pass-a-port! All right now, you read to me what it says, and don't lie to me ...

I recall that George W. Bush still had a 27% approval rate when he left office, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if most of those agitating to leave aren't smack dab in the middle of that bunch.

Speaking here as a son of Louisiana who grew up listening to folks tell me to save my Dixie cups 'cause the South will rise agin! It's been tried, folks. Didn't work then, certainly won't work now, and you really have to wonder: Has anybody thought this through, past sour grapes that the black guy got reëlected? 

If folks turned half the energy they spend on such stupidity toward making the country a better place? We could achieve paradise on this world, no need to wait until the next ...