I can think of one reason on solid principle that anyone can give. At the end of the day, Lincoln probably declared secession illegal for the reason of keeping the Union for the sake of the Union (and because they were morally in the right). My problem is that making secession illegal has got to be illegal.
It cannot be any simpler put than in the Declaration: men can find it necessary to dissolve the political bonds to their governing power when the government acts tyrannically. A new State can then rightfully be formed. How, then, could the Federal Gov ever restrict us from doing so when that is among man's rights in the Declaration? There is nothing in that regard that should stop us from listing our reasons and dissolving our political bonds to the US.
My one real reason would be the preservation of the Union serves to continue the social experiment that is America. Should we leave, our secession would say that as it was founded, the United States is over. The country failed to be ruled by The People and for The People, otherwise we would have stayed and resolved our conflict through the legislative system. So we should make a valiant effort to take back our country, and if we deem we cannot, then secede. No rational person would destroy an experiment in an attempt to keep it going. Neither should we let ourselves be subjected to tyranny in the hope to regain control.
God bless America. And should He remove His blessing, God bless Texas.
A friend of mine that I graduated with who has accepted the brainwashing and Kool-Aid and deems himself "further left than the Democrats" (because according to his revisionist ideas, they are barely leftist) brought this up the other night.
He suggested that the House should double its size to better represent the People. I agreed that the Representation Power of the people was severely diminished and even gave him the numbers I had from the top of my head (690,000 constituents per Rep circa 2010) and that it would be even higher after the Census and redistricting for 2020 were finalized. I suggested however, that the Federal Govt return powers back to the state.
I guess this was too much for his little brainwashed mind to focus on because he told me he didn't see how that would be any easier than doubling the size of the House.
So somehow giving power back to the states that was stolen in Reconstruction and the New Deal that is covered in the 10th Amendment is harder than adding 400 new Reps into Congress, needing new districts, a new place to house the House and the double of House expenditures? These people perceive reality falsely.
I was never there. I did think however that Reddit was one of the last places we could hold out. Joined Parler when lots of folks did the move from Twitter, but it's difficult to have a conversation there. Everything I posted got about 4 views.
This feedback is great though. Feels good to communicate with others on board.
We can definitely talk about that... Right after I'm done involuntarily vomiting.