The ones we are talking about are not legislative measures to secede at this time, but rather some members of the population have asked to secede through the whitehouse.gov petition site.
This is a new thing, the We the People program was launched last year, it says White House will respond to any petition that receives 25,000 or more signatures within 30 days.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
― Isaac Asimov
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