A perhaps fitting Abraham Lincoln quote

[Recursion]

If a minority, in such case, will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which, in turn, will divide and ruin them; for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority. For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy, a year or two hence, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.

Yeah...

[PJMcK]

1. President Lincoln was a Republican?!

Abraham Lincoln was a brilliant man who could articulate complex and lofty thoughts with words that transcend the passage of time. His words reflect the American spirit and ideals and should be part of our guiding principles as a nation.

It's remarkable that the GOP calls itself "the party of Lincoln." The modern Republicans don't represent any of the principles that guided President Lincoln. If anything, today's GOP would have been the secessionists; for example, look at the Texans (Republicans, of course) who want a separate country.

Generally, I don't like to disparage groups of people but I don't believe that most of Donald Trump's supporters would understand the paragraph you've quoted, Recursion. Too many of Lincoln's words have more than 2 syllables and the paragraph has more than one sentence.

[uponit7771]

2. Presidents from Illinois ... good, presidents from Texas... unnnnnn

[aikoaiko]

3. Seccession, loosely defined, is what the 13 colonies did.

It is who we are.