Rebels with(out) a cause

I posted a few days ago that the Democratic party was in a state of implosion. It has been a week now since the election and it appears that the left is in a state far worse than I thought they would be. Some Democrats are actually saying that the blue states should secede from the Union. This is silly and stupid. The hysteria is out of control and the insult to those of us who aren't of a blueish persuasion is outrageous. Tony Blankley, who normally is subdued in his analysis, offers some striking comments in his most recent writing that is well worth the time to read in full. Here's a highlight:

It's not that the Democrats lost an election, obviously both parties have lost numerous elections. But never before in my memory — which goes back faintly to 1956 — has either party in its loss reacted with such venomous contempt for the American people.
     When we conservatives got shellacked in 1964 — with Barry Goldwater losing 61percent to 39 percent to Lyndon Johnson — we knew we had a lot of work ahead if we were going to educate the public to our views. But I can honestly say that, although I remember thinking that the public was misguided in its judgment, I never hated or felt contemptuous of the majority electorate — of my fellow countrymen.
     This dominant sentiment of the Democratic Party elite — that scores of millions of Americans are categorically unacceptable as fellow countrymen — is evidence of a cancer in the soul of that party. These Democrats, quite expressly, are asserting that "Christers," people who believe in the teachings of Jesus as described in the inerrant words of the Bible, are un-American, almost sub-human. Some of these Democrats would rather secede than stay in the same country with such people. If they were in the majority with no need to secede, what would they do? Their bigoted and absolutist view of religious people is at least a second cousin to the Nazi view of the Jews.