Hear Me Out: Secession Could Be A Good Thing

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🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… the case for breaking up the union. Frank Buckley, professor at George Mason University and author of American Secession, makes a case for allowing states to peacefully secede — not just in the interest of preventing another civil war, but in hopes of creating a happier, more functional society for us all. Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hear Me Out.
0:02.4	I'm your host Celeste Headley.
0:04.5	So what if Session wasn't the third rail of politics?
0:08.6	It's safe to say the last time it was tried on US soil, it didn't go well.
0:14.1	More soldiers died in the Civil War than in the Revolutionary War, World War I, World
0:18.4	War II, and the Korean War combined.
0:21.7	And things have not been sunshine and daisies since then.
0:25.3	So if the S word happened again, could it end up being a good thing?
0:29.3	Our guest today argues, yes.
0:31.7	Bigness is badness, and we're a big country.
0:34.4	Smaller countries are happier, less corrupt.
0:37.9	That argues for looking carefully at the possibility of becoming a smaller country.
0:43.6	Writer and Professor Frank Buckley joins us on Hear Me Out in just a moment.
0:47.9	Stay with us.
0:49.3	We're back on Hear Me Out.
0:56.7	I'm Celeste Headley.
0:58.2	In the past weeks and months, there have been rare but increasingly loud calls for a, well,
1:04.4	surprising solution to our political divide.
1:07.2	Marjorie Taylor Greene is among the most high-profile people talking about this.
1:11.3	She tweeted on February 20th, we need a national divorce.
1:15.3	We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.
1:19.9	Everyone I talk to says this.
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