There’s too much money at stake for separatism to gain any real traction. Most of the red states would be poor if cut off from US government largesse. But we need them strategically because they supply natural resources and human bodies for defense and development purposes. Same would have been true if Quebec had separated.
If the Separatists had won the 1995 referendum (I remember it, even though I wasn't living in Canada yet) I doubt the transition would be as bloody as it will be if it happens again in the U.S. It famously took a war to resolve the last one, and honestly, I don't expect it to go well for liberals if it comes to that. I understand they're 'gunning up' more now but I honestly don't think they have the balls or labia to defend themselves and their families if it actually came to armed insurrection, coup d'etat, or whatever. Conservatives have a whole longstanding culture built around gun ownership, honour (or whatever passes for it anymore in the US) and strategic violence. Liberals will find there's more to defending your family than picking up a gun (although I expect untrained conservative Rambo wannabes won't fare very well either).
I worry about my family, who will be moving to a red state eventually to retire, not because they share their politics. They seem to think it will be okay. I don't know which of us is blind: Me, because I no longer live there and haven't for many years, or my fam, who may not see the danger because they live with it every day.
I read about the 1970 FLQ stuff. They kidnapped Jasper Cross, the British Trade Minister to Quebec, and held him hostage. When the kidnappers realized they were not going to overthrow the government, they settled for being flown to Algeria to avoid trial.
Apparently Cross endured a lengthy captivity with icy calm, calling it "a case of six kids trying to make a revolution."
There’s too much money at stake for separatism to gain any real traction. Most of the red states would be poor if cut off from US government largesse. But we need them strategically because they supply natural resources and human bodies for defense and development purposes. Same would have been true if Quebec had separated.
If the Separatists had won the 1995 referendum (I remember it, even though I wasn't living in Canada yet) I doubt the transition would be as bloody as it will be if it happens again in the U.S. It famously took a war to resolve the last one, and honestly, I don't expect it to go well for liberals if it comes to that. I understand they're 'gunning up' more now but I honestly don't think they have the balls or labia to defend themselves and their families if it actually came to armed insurrection, coup d'etat, or whatever. Conservatives have a whole longstanding culture built around gun ownership, honour (or whatever passes for it anymore in the US) and strategic violence. Liberals will find there's more to defending your family than picking up a gun (although I expect untrained conservative Rambo wannabes won't fare very well either).
I worry about my family, who will be moving to a red state eventually to retire, not because they share their politics. They seem to think it will be okay. I don't know which of us is blind: Me, because I no longer live there and haven't for many years, or my fam, who may not see the danger because they live with it every day.
I read about the 1970 FLQ stuff. They kidnapped Jasper Cross, the British Trade Minister to Quebec, and held him hostage. When the kidnappers realized they were not going to overthrow the government, they settled for being flown to Algeria to avoid trial.
Apparently Cross endured a lengthy captivity with icy calm, calling it "a case of six kids trying to make a revolution."