Time to Consider Separation from the Statists

Walter Williams column in the Washington Examiner gives voice to thoughts I have been having for a long time:

Here's the question asked in my September 2000 column titled "It's Time To Part Company": "If one group of people prefers government control and management of people's lives and another prefers liberty and a desire to be left alone, should they be required to fight, antagonize one another, risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to impose their preferences or should they be able to peaceably part company and go their separate ways?"

The problem that our nation faces is very much like a marriage where one partner has broken, and has no intention of keeping, the marital vows. Of course, the marriage can remain intact and one party tries to impose his will on the other and engage in the deviousness of one-upsmanship. Rather than submission by one party or domestic violence, a more peaceable alternative is separation.

I believe we are nearing a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them. The Democrat-controlled Washington is simply an escalation of a process that has been in full stride for at least two decades. There is no evidence that Americans who are responsible for and support constitutional abrogation have any intention of mending their ways.

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

I think it is time to begin a national negotiation on separation. Do we separate along the Mississippi River? Do we separate along the Mason-Dixon line (or something like it)? Do we separate state by state in a manner that leaves potentially a non-continuous patchwork of separate states? Is there some way to separate into two governments legally, without a geographic division?

Will our statist overlords even consider losing the tax base of the most productive in our population who would most likely migrate to the free market half? I think the statists count on having productive people to oppress.