Daniel Greenfield
June 22, 2021 @ Sultan Knish Blog
That a battle over Atlanta would play nearly as pivotal a role in the
country’s second civil war as it did in the first might have surprised
few historians. What might have surprised them is that the battle would
involve civic meetings rather than bullets. There are plenty of bullets
in Buckhead, a part of Atlanta coping with runaway crime under the
pro-crime rule of Mayor Keisha Bottoms, and those bullets have inspired
local residents to secede and form their own police force.
Buckhead
is not the first part of Atlanta to try and secede. Sandy Springs had
already successfully seceded from Atlanta and a number of cities in
Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, have tried to break away to form
Milton County. These efforts to escape the blight and corruption of
Atlanta aren’t new, but Buckhead’s fight to escape Atlanta’s pro-crime
government has captured the imagination of millions of Americans from
one coast of the country to the other.
The cold civil war is
being shaped not by national, but local secessions like the one in
Buckhead as neighborhoods try to secede from cities, cities from
counties, and counties from states in a powerful struggle by
conservative and centrist communities to define their own way of life.
Most
Americans might associate Roswell with UFOs, but a proposed bill by
Senator Cliff Pirtle of Roswell would have allowed it and other counties
located near Texas to secede with the possible intention of joining the
Lone Star State. In Oregon, 7 counties voted to secede and join Idaho,
Weld County is considering seceding from Colorado to join Wyoming, and
western Minnesota has seen proposals for its counties to leave and unite
with South Dakota.
Secession talk isn’t new. Northern
Californians have kept the dream of a breakaway state named Jefferson
alive for generations. The Democrat machine illegally suppressed a
ballot measure that proposed to split California in three. The secession
proposals that succeed are more modest and limited in scope. Breaking
up states may be a moonshot, seceding from states might be an uphill
battle, but the rate of local secessions is growing rapidly.
The most popular form of secession is also the smallest and involves school districts.
An
average of 5 school districts secede every year. And while such
secessions may get less publicity than plans to split up entire states,
they’re commonplace and effective. They also represent the same trend of
communities escaping the social and political wreckage of urban rule.
Even as Democrats go to war against the suburbs, the suburbs are
fighting back.
The political geography of the new civil war is a
tug of war between Democrats seeking to concentrate authority in as few
places as possible and an opposition seeking independence.
While
Democrats and their media complain about the electoral college and the
composition of the Senate, the nation and its states are largely ruled
by a handful of metropolitan areas. The wealth that buys and sells
elections nationwide mostly flows out of New York and California, and,
more specifically, out of New York City and Silicon Valley. Geographic
regions of less than 1,000 square miles in total rule a nation of 3.8
million square miles with an economic fist.
The meltdown of the
urban areas drove suburbanization. And the spreading blight of urban
areas into suburban communities due to the concentration of statewide
political power in the cities has led to a secondary exodus from
suburban bedroom communities to other states.
California not only
went blue, but it ‘blued’ Colorado, Wyoming, and a range of other
states. The final casualty of California’s blue wave may even end up
being Texas. New York has had a similar effect, not only regionally, but
even to the south, driving an exodus to Atlanta.
The tide of blue state invasions has the potential to transform the state of states and the nation.
Neighborhoods
and school districts seceding from failed urban centers are trying to
halt the problem at its source. Rural counties, especially in western
states, are pushing back against larger demographic invasions that have
transformed smaller states into miniature Californias.
Polls
show that most people prefer to live in communities with people that
share their values. As politics becomes more tribal, the number of
neighborhoods with an even share of lawn signs for both parties is
decreasing. In a political system that forces cake makers to bake cakes,
indoctrinates elementary school students with radical views on race
and sexuality, and cancels anyone who doesn’t go along, coexistence with
a radical leftist system is no longer an option.
Secession is.
The new civil war is being fought locally. It’s not a regional movement,
but a communal one. What brings together rural areas and suburban
communities is a desire to control their own way of life and escape the
destructive centralization of urban regimes.
The new civil war
isn’t being fought between the North and the South, but between the
cities and the rest of the country. It’s an economic and social war
whose objective is independence.
That’s why the smallest scale secessions have paradoxically been the most successful.
Whether
it’s the Buckhead movement or the Texas Senate passing a bill allowing
Lake Austin residents to secede from Austin only to see it die in the
House, the secessions are gathering strength. But so is the Left's
battle to stop them through lies, racism smears, and judicial fiat.
Just
because the public votes to create a separate school district or a city
doesn't mean that it won't be blocked by Democrat activist judges who
decide to override the will of the people.
The attempt by
Gardendale to secede from the failed Jefferson County Public School
system in Alabama was illegally blocked by federal judges. The Left is
struggling to block the creation of the city of St. George in Louisiana
with equally illegal lawsuits. But the pace of secession proposals is
only growing as more communities struggle to escape abusive governments.
And
as Democrats seek to illegally rig elections across the country with
H.R.1, to transform the government city of Washington D.C. into a state,
and to exercise total control over every local decision through its
massive urban bureaucracy, the rate of secessions is only increasing.
Some
only seek to restore control over local schools and police forces to
communities, while others strive to reconfigure the borders of states to
enable rural representation.
Though the term ‘secession’ and the
idea of dividing a land summons to mind civil war, the more apt analogy
may be the original secession of the United States from British rule.
"When
in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,"
Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence.
America’s
revolutionaries wanted self-government on their own terms. Their modern
descendants are breaking away from New York and San Francisco, from Big
Tech and Wall Street, the way that their ancestors sought to escape
from London and its mercantile interests.
The fundamental issue
at stake in the secessions is whether communities will be governed
centrally or locally. Democrats and their media have worked to cloud the
issue with false accusations of racism, but it’s not only white
neighborhoods that are talking secession. A generation ago, black Boston
residents proposed to create the breakaway city of Mandela. That
movement has recently come in for a reexamination. It’s time to
reexamine all of them.
The new generation of secessionism is
driven by the unbearable pressure imposed on communities by the
expansive ideological programs of radical leftist technocrats which
leave little room for either individuality or human needs. Rather than
learning from the profound failures of urban areas during the pandemic,
all they learned is a need for greater control.
Secession is the
natural human response to the control freak madness of cities which
control entire states. Communities are confronting radical power grabs
by taking back the power.
The cold civil war is being fought in
civic meetings. The battles are local and the battle maps cover streets
rather than continents, but it is a conflict driven by the impetus of
revolutions and civil wars in which one people, as Jefferson wrote,
seeks to part ways with another, not to rule over them, but to be free
of their thievery, their abuses, and their tyrannical rule.
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About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a journalist investigating Islamic terrorism and
the Left. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz
Freedom Center
