If you have a hard time believing this country is falling apart, consider this.
Greater Idaho.
There are seven counties in eastern Oregon that want to secede from their state and become part of a state that is most famous for …
Wait for it.
Potatoes.
That’s right, potatoes.
Unless you prefer white supremacists, many of whom live up in the northern part of the state around Coeur d’Alene.
Idaho, where men are men and everyone is nervous.
In the first question on the Greater Idaho FAQ page, the group provides aq misleading answer to the most important question of all — “Can this really happen?”
They cite 1863 and the example of West Virginia, but it was an entirely different situation. West Virginia didn’t want to become part of a different state. The folks in the northwestern part of Virginia disagreed with their state’s decision to leave the Union and they said they wanted to stay part of the USA.
The goal in this case is to take conservative enclaves in at least three different states and add them to Idaho, which would become the fourth largest state geographically. It might not make that much difference when it comes to electoral votes. The current No. 4, Montana, has only three.
Eastern Oregon is one of the weirder places in the country politically. It’s probably closer to Idaho than it is to the parts of Oregon where people actually live. It’s the land of the wack jobs like Ammon Bundy, who actually already lives in Idaho. In fact, he’s running for governor in 2022.
He’s got competition, at least for attention. America’s favorite nutter, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, has been praising the Greater Idaho movement as an example of true American patriotism.
Greene is working overtime trying to seize the mantle as America’s Wackiest Woman, following in the footsteps of Snowbilly T. Grifter, Shelly Bachmann and Joni Ernst.
Actually, maybe Snowbilly could get involved in this. Pretty sure Palin actually has her degree from the University of Idaho.
Of course, the city in which it’s located is Moscow.
Talk about a mixed message