Stunned by the trouncing of Mitt Romney in last week’s election by President Barack Obama, Republicans and other right-leaning groups are scrambling for ways to advance conservative ideals in the face of defeat. The lack of connection to active young voters and a haughty sense of entitlement have made opponents of Obama and other liberals appear to be nothing more than childish brutes. Although many Republican Party leaders have expressed a willingness to cooperate with the returning administration, a startling number of so-called “neo-secessionists” have banded together in a multi-state effort to secede from the United States. So far, the massive state of Texas has drawn the most attention among the 26 states involved in this growing dubious movement.
Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, appeared on FOX News’s “Sean Hannity Show” Tuesday night making the case for secession. Miller aligned himself and those of his group with the conservative values many Obama detractors hoped would be ushered in with a Mitt Romney win.
On Fox News, Miller said:
I think we’re faced with the reality that the Union has fundamentally changed.
We’ve got a federal government that treats states like Texas as a cash cow. It has no regard to the sovereignty of the states; it really treats us merely like an administrative subdivision of the whims of the federal government. We have seen, indeed, the fundamental transformation of what the Union is.
When Hannity probed Miller on the actual reason Texas wants to secede, Miller offered a dizzying answer that suggested that Obama supporters are Marxists:
The fact of the matter is, that there cannot be a union between those that esteem the principles of Karl Marx over the principles of Thomas Jefferson. Here in Texas, we esteem those principles of Thomas Jefferson — that all political power’s inherent in the people. What we have seen given on Tuesday was that a majority of the people in the United States, and the states in which they reside, esteem the principles of Karl Marx over those principles.
Huh?
Whatever.
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