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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 01:40 PM Oct 2014

TYT: Stamp Your Passport For Raygun, The Right Wing Wonderland



“A conservative columnist and former aide to President Ronald Reagan called on southern states to secede and form an ultraconservative new nation named after his old boss.

Douglas MacKinnon, a former speechwriter for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, appeared Tuesday on The Janet Mefford Show to promote his new book, “The Secessionist States of America: The Blueprint for Creating a Traditional Values Country … Now,” reported Right Wing Watch.

He told the religious conservative host that southern states – starting with Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina – should leave the United States so they can implement a right-wing Christian system of government."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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3rdwaydem

(277 posts)
2. I'm all in favor of it. Good Ridance to all of you of the RW
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 01:55 PM
Oct 2014

Question: What are the Red States without the Blue States?

Answer: Poor!

Yes, let them all leave and form their own nation and see how that works for them. The remaining Blue state would have no problem, for once, putting through a liberal agenda and reforming our economic system. Republican office holders would be few and far between.

Yes Red State, by all means secede from the Union and don't let the door hit you on your way out.

20score

(4,769 posts)
4. Please! And take a few more red states and all the teabaggers with you.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 02:50 PM
Oct 2014

Plus take Citizens United v. FEC, the 1033 Program, all theocrats, fascists, fanatics, racists, ubiquitous spying and Fox News, too. Our country would so much better.

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
5. Republic of REAGANLAND. Capital MILTONTOWN after Uncle Miltie Friedman in the district of
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 04:36 PM
Oct 2014

NANCYVILLE. DO it. Best news I've heard in 5 yrs. Take all the RW, Paul Ryan, The Bushes, The Pauls, Bachman, Palin, Gingrich, Cheney, Romney, Darrell Issa, Ted Cruz, Pat Robertson PTL, Rick 'Saddleback Church' Warren, Christie, Rubio, Santorum, SCOTUS, FOX, Rushbo, O'Reilly, Michael (Weiner) Savage and their followers.
What a Legacy to DUTCH, conservatism and free market voodoo economics.

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
6. But where to put them?
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 05:12 PM
Oct 2014

Obviously Alaska would be geographically desirable, since it's the farthest away from the rest of us, but you know what would happen, right? Do the words 'drill, baby drill' ring any bells?

I'd say give them someplace they'd already fucked up, like Louisiana or West Virginia. But of course, you know they'd insist on all the choice real estate- no Indian reservations for them- They'd want all the natural resources, and all the scenic views. They'd probably demand all the Old South, plus North Dakota (Mt Rushmore) Washington DC (Where the Founding Fathers lived) and Maryland (Buffer for DC once they ran all the liberals out) as well as Alaska (Sarah Palin + oil) Before we knew it, they'd be demanding 3/4 of the country.

Much as I'd love to see them go, I doubt we could come to an amicable agreement on where.

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
8. Suggestion
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 06:31 PM
Oct 2014

Mississippi would be a good choice. Goes without saying, that they would all have to move there and never enter the rest of the states for any reason.

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
9. They need to leave the US, have done enough harm here. They want to secede, their leaders
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 07:19 PM
Oct 2014

have plenty of money to buy a place if needed. Most of their elites already have 2nd vacation homes outside US anyway. No more damage to MS, AL, WV, KY, LS, Detroit. If they move to Alaska, the oil drilling toxins would still be close. Alaska as a last resort.

The Arctic might work, or Greenland-low population, plenty of space.
Or the Americas- Central America, or far away like Patagonia, lower tip of SA. Plenty other fascists, Nazis lived in remote areas of So. America for decades after WWII.
(Even a small Confederate group in Brazil was invited by that govt. to farm cotton after CW; didn't turn out so well but descendants are still there).

We'll find a place for them. If communism can rule in Cuba, expat Xian fascism can find a 'homeland. REAGANLAND is the solution.

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
10. Don't send them anyplace cold
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 07:32 PM
Oct 2014

It would only give them a reason them to pump more CO2 into the atmosphere. I'm thinking somewhere in West Africa (warm, already fucked up by oil companies, closer to Israel so Jihadis don't have to travel as far) Of course, we might have to agree to take some West Africans in return, but if enough RWNJs left, we'd have plenty of space for them...


Although if we could devise a way to settle them all on Pluto, that would also be acceptable...

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
13. Maybe Nancy was into astrology. Not sure. This RW author with his new book says
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 08:53 PM
Oct 2014

their country will be Christian with traditional family values...

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
11. What's funny is how Republicans long for a past that never was....
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 08:34 PM
Oct 2014

Meanwhile the rest of the world is looking at a future that could be.

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