Just how bad is one-state rule in the bluest states?
Bad enough that not only are people fleeing for friendlier regions — some three million of whom have done that in the last decade — some are trying to take their counties with them.
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According to NBC News:
Nearly one-third of Illinois’ counties have voted to potentially explore creating a new state separate from Cook County, and seven more counties could join them this November.
According to the latest reports from Illinois Separation, a group aiming to get separation referendums onto ballots in the November election, those counties’ boards have approved the non-binding ballot measure for voters to consider later this year.
In all, 33 counties have already voted on similar referendums between 2020 and 2024, and all 33 have approved the measures by wide margins.
The map shows that the southern part of the state, and parts in the west, have had it with blue-state rule, with its massive taxes, its fiscal mismanagement, its failure to deliver anything of value, its bizarre social policies, its gun control, and its endorsement of lawlessness, whether in soft-on-crime acts or incentives to illegal immigration.
What would a rural county in a state like Illinois have in common with the oppressive shambles of Chicago’s Cook County, which calls the shots on everything, when in reality, the state itself outside of Chicago is far more like balanced states such as Missouri and Iowa and Indiana?
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Imagine having to live in a state like Illinois ruled by one monstrous blue oligarchy and watching the other states in the region growing and prospering while your similar area is left behind without anyone advocating on behalf of your legitimate interests?
It roughly parallels the secession movements in western Oregon and northern California, which is also drawing growing support for forming new states more responsive to their needs instead of the winner-takes-all system seen now with blue state capitals surrounded by red-voting rural and suburban areas with no voice in their governments.
The NBC article cautions to add that it’s nearly impossible for any secession movement to gain ground based on constitutional restraints, which are true enough, and not just Democrat rigging at the last minute, such as we see in California on many matters. Blue state governors, such as Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker, know this, and govern with indifference to the rural areas even as the Democrat party swings to the extremist left. Pritzker even gaslights in the NBC item about governing everyone equally, which is quite the gaslight.
That’s what’s fueling these separatist movements, the utter failure of one-party blue rule that completely excludes rural areas. As the lunacy continues to burn on the left and the state coffers go empty and the taxes go up, count on these separatist movements to strengthen and multiply.
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