Losing Good

ITS EVEN WORSE than we thought. The anger, the bitterness, the arrogance. America's conservatives/republicans are on a rampage,, but so far, fortunately, said rampage is largely verbal...and written.

In about fifteen states conreps (conservative republicans) are circulating petitions demanding that their respective states secede from the union, which is exactly what "they", southern conservatives, did in 1861, in reaction to the election of abraham lincoln. You may recall that at that time all hell broke loose.

Back then the conservatives were the democrats,  the president who inspired the rebellion was a republican.  In both cases, the newly elected president was a visionary who believed in fundamental necessary change, and the conservatives were/are reactionaries who were just too damned arrogant to understand that sometimes your own beliefs are not the beliefs of the majority of americans, and that the majority, in nearly all cases, should rule.

Meanwhile, about half the states, (for the benefit of our russian readers, there are fifty states) have indicated in no uncertain terms that there is absolutely no way, shape, or form, no way in hell, that they will voluntarily set up "health care exchanges", in accordance with obamacare. The feds'll have to do it.

In the case of the secession movement, the cause is illegal, unpatriotic, and doomed to fail because only a small minority of people actually support it. In the case of obamacare, the non participating states are merely choosing a perfectly legal option, and their action reflects a fair share of public opinion.

But both situations are indicative of the same alarming tendency; the tendency in america for people to increasingly refuse to cooperate with the will of the majority, and with the law, simply because they happen to strongly disagree with it.

These malcontents have evidently forgottone one of the first lessons of early childhood: you can't always have your way, and when you don't, you must be a good good loser.