The article is thorough and accurate but that is irrelevant in the real world.
Until Versailles on the Potomac is as bankrupt and unsupported as the Politburo and CPUSSR in 1991, any serious effort at secession will result in imprisonment at best, and more likely example murders ala Ruby Ridge or Waco. Anyone who advocates secession and thinks otherwise is a fool.
The right to secede, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, and decadence and corruption of central authorities is beside the point. As long as a corrupt authority can fight to preserve itself, it will. If it were not corrupted, no one would be seeking to leave it. Laws and rights be damned, coerced union is about the honor killing and perpetual servitude for one party, and unquestioned domination by the other. It was ever so, in every generation.
“The article is thorough and accurate but that is irrelevant in the real world.”
Indeed.
What Chairman Mao had to say is a lot more relevant, given today’s circumstances.
In the coming struggle, who will prevail?