For the past few years, I’ve been seeing a rapid increase in liberal rhetoric surrounding secession, and it scares me.
I’m white, engaged to a black woman. We have already gotten pretty overt hostility from racists in our community. When people say shit like that, they’re saying it’s okay to throw me, my fiancee, and tens of millions (including other liberals) to the wolves to win some political points.
It embodies the disregard for human rights we see in the U.S. government. I feel like me and my soon-to-be wife are just props to them. We exist when it’s convenient, but the moment it isn’t, we’re fucked.
I don’t even know how to address it, either. I don’t want my family and anyone who isn’t white or doesn’t have the right religion, skin tone, political beliefs or sexual orientation to live as a second class citizen, but a growing number of “allies” seem to think it’s okay.
Most of us can’t “just leave” like they say, either. That’s too fucking expensive. It’d financially destroy most people if they tried to uproot their lives like that.
I think you captured their sentiment perfectly. Red states bother them, and their solution is increasingly to let the red states have their way. And I fear, when people like us start bothering them to, you know, defend our rights, we’ll get ignored.
I mean, fuck, union activists and BLM protestors already got that very same treatment. They’d rather live oblivious to this country’s problems than address them