This will be a really short Essay, but I think it's a question which needs to be answered.
Has anyone else around here noticed that every time the clause "The State is Indivisible" or equivalent appears in any country's Constitution, that country has a chunk of its land and people who emphatically do NOT want to be part of it?
An object lesson in the differing world views of large segments of society is offered in the responses to former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Exercising considerable bravery, CK knelt during the playing of the national anthem at the beginning of a football game. He is intelligent and certainly was aware of the possible repercussions of this act, which, in fact, were realized.
We have a general idea of support for 'self-determination'. See the colonies declaring independence from Britain in 1776.
Then it gets fuzzier. We left it pretty ambiguous after that, until the south tried to exercise a
right to secede in 1861, and we said no, you don't have that right.
So if there is any principle around the issue, it seems to suggest that people who don't have the power of democracy have a right to secede, but people who have democracy, don't.
The climate disasters are coming, and there probably won't be a lot of traction for the next four years because the Democrats all got behind Clinton (who wasn't going to do anything besides propose an overelaborated and useless sop to the fossil fuel companies anyway).
The GOP has a Trump/Puerto Rico problem, and it will cost them plenty in coming elections.
This is the question that has been bugging me since yesterday.
A total of 42 guns were found in the suspected Las Vegas shooter's hotel room and house, police said Monday night.
Yesterday was one of horrific senseless violence: murder, maiming, painful memories, and loss. The Las Vegas massacre authored by Big Al adduced a large number of thoughtful comments. I wish to discuss this subject with a different intent and hence differing ideas for change.
"You simply can't have democracy at home and imperialism abroad"
Ben Schreiner
Something very significant has happened that is not receiving nearly enough attention in anti-establishment land.
A high school student in Wisconsin asked Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) if health care was a right or a privilege.
