{"id":1510,"date":"2016-11-11T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2016-11-11T07:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T13:30:32","slug":"dear-calexit-liberals-who-used-to-make-fun-of-texit-secession-is-not-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/11\/dear-calexit-liberals-who-used-to-make-fun-of-texit-secession-is-not-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear #Calexit liberals who used to make fun of #Texit: secession is not the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/622274670\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 77.272727% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/622274670?et=3Sk7w0tgSDJzX9CFJrqauA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=EIbUjXrQGO7mAGQpPQKZ0UxtAfjwn8BCPJOOvKyOse8=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"459\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Liberals are in a panic after the stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton and they\u2019re wandering aimlessly in the streets protesting their worst nightmare: President-elect Donald Trump.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Californians have taken this news especially hard and are so forlorn that they\u2019re actually calling for the state to secede from the Union. The movement is gathering steam on Twitter and has adopted a similar moniker as Britain\u2019s exit from the European Union known as Brexit. They\u2019re calling it Calexit.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone from celebrities to Silicon Valley elites and everyone in between is talking secession:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I 100% support this!!! Californian independence!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BREGvCsst5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/BREGvCsst5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Calexit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Calexit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Perez (@ThePerezHilton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePerezHilton\/status\/796268259603402752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Seriously. What are the steps to make this possible??? We must secede!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Calexit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Calexit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Perez (@ThePerezHilton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePerezHilton\/status\/796259497710714880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/shervin\/status\/796190968735289344<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Calexit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Calexit<\/a> is a thing right? I am a million times down for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Logan (@sarcasticsoresu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarcasticsoresu\/status\/796266751902089216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Again, California\u2019s votes didn't matter in a US presidential election. Why should we continue to be part of this Union? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Calexit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Calexit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #CalExit (@YesCalifornia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YesCalifornia\/status\/796348864672518144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Remember when liberals Californians used to make fun of Texans for suggested the same thing? \u00a0I have a way for them to avoid hypocrisy:\u00a0secession is not the answer. They are so busy running around like emotional chickens with their heads cut off that they fail to see that a power provided for by the Constitution is right in front of them. It\u2019s called an Article V Convention of States.<\/p>\n<p>Through a Convention of States, the electorate is no longer powerless or indentured to a candidate that doesn\u2019t share their ideas. If the federal government is abusing its power, a COS is the key to stopping it. Instead of the control center being in Washington D.C., the people would be the ones wielding the authority and directing policies. And it\u2019s all there in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>So, California and any liberal upset by Tuesday\u2019s election: if you want to ensure that the Washington elite aren\u2019t trampling your rights, it\u2019s your duty to look into what a Convention of States could mean for you.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of exercising their constitutional rights, they scream the sky is falling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dear #Calexit liberals who used to make fun of #Texit: secession is not the 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