EL DORADO STATE IS NOT AN ANOMALY
We Are Not Alone, cont'd.
Gold Panners,
This article was taken (with other countries edited out by me) from a neighbor on Substack. You can see that we are not the only group unhappy with our current government. California, in particular, has been recognized as being too large and too diverse to be properly governed with happy people since the Mexican government was in charge and making preparations to split it even in 1848 when the United States took it over by treaty. Since then, all 220 plus efforts to split California have failed. In this current atmosphere, we finally stand a chance at successfully seceding our county from California, in particular because we are only one county with government already in place that only requires a few changes to our governmental structure such as adding a Governor, local representation, and a state constitution to undo most California laws and regulations, and to then be prosperous and filled with happy people.
WE CAN DO THIS!
Sharon
© 2024 On This Terrestrial Ball
The Secession Examiner <keepgovlocal+secession-examiner@substack.com>
The Era of Secession
We are entering an Era in World History which is beyond comparison.
Professor Wall and Jason Aug 5
Secession as a concept is regularly scoffed at by most individuals who have wielded power through the years. The general line one hears is, “How could the people possibly keep the peace without rulers deciding things for them?” As the world falls apart more and more thanks to the inept ruling classes, it is becoming clearer to common people that such disdainful rhetoric has no basis in fact. Many people are opening their minds to rediscover a principle which helped give birth to the American nation - that ordinary people can govern themselves. Newcomers to self-determination in the wider world will start exploring how to put their ideas into practice, and they are bound to discover the American founders achieved self-governance with separation from a corrupt system - in a word - secession.
In recent years, not many ordinary people paid attention to secession movements such as Scotland in 2014 or Catalonia in 2017. Today, however, the corruption and hubris of elites has resulted in rapid deterioration of societies across the world. It is motivating people to search for solutions that cut directly to the root of problems which are now becoming quite painful to them. The origin of these pressing problems lies in the political realm, and while ruling classes stifle the traditional avenues of political change, namely elections and electoral opposition, citizens have been forced to look for other means to effectively address the problems. It is this development more than anything else, which is now driving the rising popularity of “secession as a solution.”
North America
On the North American continent, the people are finally seeing for themselves how the elite classes of their respective nations have grown rich and fat on the largesse of foreign lobbyists and crony capitalists while ignoring the needs of the populace. There are more and more people with a new-found desire to re-assert control of their own governance. Beginning with steps by parents taking over their local school boards, it has now expanded into widespread efforts to nullify tyrannical laws. Resistance is only part of the story though; there is growing support for secession movements across multiple states.
In the United States, a nation which has long been propagandized to oppose secession because of details surrounding the American War Between the States, the long-standing narrative is losing its hold on the people. Recent electoral disasters and mindless governance from the top have shown the people just how depraved, corrupt, and out-of-touch the elite classes have become. A key indicator of the change in mood was revealed in the positive popular response from everyday people to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s public comments endorsing the concept of National Divorce. With the regular avenues of change, such as the electoral process, now so corrupted in America as to be effectively useless, the people have had to begin exploring other means to bring about necessary change. Rising unchecked crime, illegal immigration, a rapidly dying economy, and the forced implementation of repulsive ideologies have just added urgency to the need to find an avenue for meaningful change.
America also boasts the unique secession phenomenon of “border-changing movements” where smaller political entities such as counties and cities seek to separate from corrupted higher political entities while remaining within the larger American framework. The most prominent of these movements in the public eye are the Greater Idaho and Illinois Separation movements, but they are hardly the only ones. Proposals and efforts in this realm have begun to explode across the nation, especially in areas where elite failure is far more pronounced.
One of the most advanced secession causes in the United States is in Texas, where the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) has been bringing believers in Texian sovereignty together to push for Texas independence from DC. The Texas Border Crisis of early 2024 thrust the Texas nationalism issue into the spotlight and has inspired more Texans than ever before into supporting the TNM and its secessionist cause. The Elites have tried to keep the lid on the talk about Texas secession, most notably through their shady machinations which kept a non-binding question about Texit off the Republican primary ballot. All that did was show the depth of their desperation to hang on to power. The steady takeover of the Texas Republican party by Texit supporters has continued despite these setbacks, and the growing possibility of Texas independence in the near-future has inspired neighboring counties in Colorado and New Mexico to propose movements to secede from their respective states and join Texas in it’s bid for independence.
Not far behind Texas is the northeastern state of New Hampshire and their NH Independence Movement (NHexit). Here local initiatives to re-assert the state’s sovereignty have been slowly garnering support. Innovative proposals such as bills setting a debt limit secession trigger and seeking to withdraw the state from the Federal Reserve system have ignited debate over what preparations for eventual secession might look like. Though push back from loyalist figures have slowed the movement’s progress, steadily increasing support has shown up in larger vote totals in the legislature, rising activism among the populace, and efforts to lay the groundwork for an alliance with the Texas Nationalist Movement which would continue after secession. All are positive signs of a state which is already in a secessionist mindset and looking to clear away local hindrances to that fast-approaching reality.
The Greater Idaho movement in the Pacific Northwest seeks to have counties from eastern and southern Oregon, northern California, and southeast Washington separate from their respective states and join Idaho. The movement has widespread public support in eastern Oregon (in spite of an opposition movement with elitist connections) and a resume of successful county-level referendums endorsing the proposal. The demonstration of widespread support has prompted action from Idaho's legislature to hold hearings on these Oregon counties’ requests. It has also led to the first summit between Idaho and Oregon state legislators, with county officials and Greater Idaho representatives also present, for preliminary talks regarding the transfer of counties from Oregon to Idaho.
The Illinois Separation movement has also shown widespread support from the people who have an interest in seeing the state of Illinois separate from the deteriorating city of Chicago. Chicago-based elites pushing disarmament and other elite-sponsored agendas have only made the idea of splitting the state off from the Windy City grow in popularity. To date, twenty-six counties and two townships have endorsed the idea through referendums. More referendums are planned heading into November of 2024, with the goal being a convention of like-minded counties and townships. The county convention representatives would then discuss whether to form their own state or if they should seek to join neighboring states such as Missouri or Kentucky.
The activism and growing progress of all four of these movements, along with the failure of elitist policies, has emboldened secession and nullification activists across America to form new movements of their own. Next door to Texas, the bayou state of Louisiana has launched it’s own movement seeking separation from the DC Empire. In California, at least five different secession movements seek to split up the state and/or take it out of the United States. Further up the Pacific coast in Washington, a movement in the eastern part of the state (outside of the counties looking to join Greater Idaho) is seeking to form the new state of Liberty and may be due for a surge of support thanks to a totalitarian (and very confusing) hate speech law now coming into effect. Across country in Minnesota, as the Twin Cities implode domestically, a new movement has arisen seeking to pull western counties out to form their own state or join neighboring states, which some speculate could be a preliminary to breaking up the whole state.
Even at the most local levels of cities and counties, things are beginning to break up. News of the successful secession of St. George from the city of Baton Rouge, after a protracted campaign and legal battle, shocked and invigorated like-minded people across the nation. On the east coast, New York city and state are cracking apart as residents of Long Island discuss the idea of statehood, and Staten Island residents pursue separation over the immigration crisis. In Austin, Texas, certain sections of the city have lent overwhelming electoral endorsements to proposals to form their own cities. Most telling of all, steadily rising support for a movement to split up a more rural county in western Pennsylvania to better address local needs speaks to the growing popularity of these ideas among local citizens.
In other parts of the nation, open defiance toward elitist mandates is also becoming more popular, planting the seeds for further secession activism. In Wyoming and Louisiana laws have been passed forthrightly stating that the state governments will not enforce certain federal or globalist laws and/or treaties. In Florida, governor Ron DeSantis continues to take steps to defy federal and globalist mandates and appears to be building up his own state-run military to prepare Florida to defend itself if necessary. Even local governments are asserting their right of nullification, especially in those states where elitist policies are being most forcefully pursued, such as in Michigan where one township not only declared itself a sanctuary for the second amendment, but sent out a call for volunteers to form a local self-defense militia.
Conclusion
An old Chinese saying is “May you live in interesting times.” It is hard to imagine more interesting times than the ones currently emerging. History has never seen such a widespread rise in negative public sentiment toward the legitimacy of ruling elites. The common people, empowered by the democratization of information through the internet, are now beginning to take matters into their own hands. The world appears to be entering an era of political transformation whose ramifications will be studied for the rest of time.
Sharon here: