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Texas Governor Rick Perry stirred the stick of popularism yesterday with his war-cry of secession from the Union during the Texan-chapter of the not-so-great Tea Party rallies. Alas a firebrand pitchfork and torch march on Capitol Hill was not the reality hoped for by hundreds and the mainstream media added just the right measure of pre-determined scoff.

Gov. Perry announced, with all the shock of a stale ham sandwich, that Washington had run amok with Tax Payers’ monies and gorged piggy-style on the excesses of cuddly big government. His threat – loose with innuendo and bile – suggested Texans might get really really ‘fed up’ with the Obama’isms and viciously, and with merit, secede (again [1861 failure]) from the grand Union / the fantastic experiment that is … the United States of America.

Popularism is an ugly and blunt tool that works very well on the soap box and, perhaps in front of a beer-chasing crowd flailed by the oppressive midday sun, but it is a dangerous game to play by a perhaps naive peoples’ politician? The 300m strong U.S. is paddling dangerously in the dark waters of economic and social collapse. Threats from within (no matter how puny) only adds fuel to the ugly spiral of uncertainty and introspection what has already aaded considerable damage to the reputation, image, social and economic stature of the U.S. on the world stage – amongst peers, friends and foes.

Unfortunately … the break up of the United States has already received the focus of our beloved press when Russian academia smashingly announced (and with great relish) the disintegration of the United States.

It appears Russian professor, Igor Panarin, a former KGB analyst (love that!), and the dean of an academy associated with the Russian Foreign Ministry, has been beating the drum of America’s demise for the past decade. Good stuff! Enjoy.

Posted on April 16th, 2009 under Americans, CNN, Cold War, Conspiracy, Democrats, Depression, Dmitry Medvedev, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Great Depression, Igor Panarin, Jingoism, KGB, Medvedev, Moscow, Multipolar, National Debt, NeoCons, Obama, Oval Office, Patriotism, Putin, Recession, Republicans, Russia, State Department, State of the Union, Stock Market, Taxation, Tea Party, Texas, U.S., US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, Unilateralism, Unipolar, WSJ, Washington, World Trade, congress •  Email This Post • RSS 2.0 feed • You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed