Gotta tell you, I laughed my ass off when I read about this next intellectual gem. There is no doubt, leftism really is a mental illness just like the psychiatrists have shown in their research. They are stunted in their intellectual growth and reasoning capabilities. Those people just don’t think like normal folks.

Behold! via Reuters:

TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront of Arizona politics.

A group of lawyers from the Democratic stronghold of Tucson and surrounding Pima County have launched a petition drive seeking support for a November 2012 ballot question on whether the 48th state should be divided in two.

The ultimate goal of the newly formed political action committee Start our State is to split Pima County off into what would become the nation’s 51st state, tentatively dubbed Baja Arizona.

And why are the leftists looking to secede? They live in that unrealistic utopian vision of a world without borders. That’s right, these kooks are the open borders, celebrate diversity, embrace multiculturalism crowd. They’re the kooks you see around a campfire singing “Khumbaya” wearing beads, roman sandals, and have the peace signs on their multicolored VW vans, with their “Mother Earth” license plate holders.