I saw rense.com has a line that says 20 states have petitioned for secession.
Hogwash.
No single state has petitioned for any such thing. Its a handful of individuals and one day they'll wake up cold within the confines of a guarded fence.
The requisites of freedom are higher than most are capable of understanding, same as it ever was. Some fish come to the surface to suck air, not knowing why, then they go back down.