If it's in a insignificant place, the wall will not crumble quickly, but time may wear away at the open cavity and cause it to decay like a festering gangrenous sore.
If it is in a significant place, however, the wall will tumble almost immediately, and the removed brick pummeled to dust amidst the chaos.
Texas is the significant brick. We can stand for a while to lose a place like Maine or Oregon.
Texas being removed would turn us all into a pile of rubble.
If Texas leaves, another State will see it is possible, and then also leave. Then another, and another, and another...
How well-off were the folks who yanked all their money out of the banks at the start of the Great Depression? The money didn't matter once it lost all its buying power. In the attempt to save themselves, they doomed the banks to fail. It doesn't matter if it was all orchestrated, people still fell for it because they couldn't see past their individual situations.
Watch this scene, and you'll understand why Texas shouldn't leave:
Remove a brick from a wall.
If it's in a insignificant place, the wall will not crumble quickly, but time may wear away at the open cavity and cause it to decay like a festering gangrenous sore.
If it is in a significant place, however, the wall will tumble almost immediately, and the removed brick pummeled to dust amidst the chaos.
Texas is the significant brick. We can stand for a while to lose a place like Maine or Oregon.
Texas being removed would turn us all into a pile of rubble.
If Texas leaves, another State will see it is possible, and then also leave. Then another, and another, and another...
How well-off were the folks who yanked all their money out of the banks at the start of the Great Depression? The money didn't matter once it lost all its buying power. In the attempt to save themselves, they doomed the banks to fail. It doesn't matter if it was all orchestrated, people still fell for it because they couldn't see past their individual situations.
Watch this scene, and you'll understand why Texas shouldn't leave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPkJH6BT7dM