Eight days since the re-election of President Obama, the
country seems to be in an uproar. Every state has begun petitions to secede
from the United States with over half a dozen states already receiving the
necessary 25,000 signatures. On top of that, other outlandish petitions are
circulating such as one that is calling for citizenship to be stripped from
every citizen calling for secession and that they be exiled from the country.
Regardless
of your party affiliation or if you agree President Obama is doing a good job,
the idea of secession will only damage our country more. We are creating a void
we will not be able to fill.
While this enthusiasm needs to be
maintained, this is not the venue it needs to be channeled into. Secession, or
the deportation of those who wish to secede, is not the solution to the
problems we are facing currently in America.
Petitioning
seems to be an easy avenue to vent frustration but it is not a productive one.
These petitions are only worsening the buff between political parties. The
solution to our problems is reaching across the aisle. Party ties and political
affiliation are not as important as providing a positive future for the next generation.
Not every American’s opinion will
agree when it comes to social issues, but something we can all agree on is
fixing the economy. These citizens need
to channel their frustration into calling their legislators to attend to the
debt ceiling or creating a new business to boast the economy and create jobs.
In times like these, our country
needs to come together and create positive solutions or else our republic will
fall.
