Thanks for posting.
Hey Brits,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
There are so many glaring problems with the Leave campaign: nowhere to be seen was there an inspirational Declaration of Independence with signatory representatives, nor any sort of pamphlet along the lines of Common Sense (ironically written by English-born Thomas Paine) putting before the people the common sense of the subject in words so plain and firm as to command their assent, nor any coherent John Adams type to lead the recalcitrant half-hearted worriers to a final vote on independence.
240 years ago the Founding Fathers gave the Leave campaign all the cues they needed to separate from the EU. They didn’t use any of it. Great Britain still doesn’t understand how Independence is done, a quarter of a millennium later. They absolutely do not get it. The very few who do somehow manage to trickle to North America in dribs and drabs. Our revolution against them remains America’s second bloodiest war and was an enormous gambit. All the Brits had to do in Brexit was mark an ‘X’ on a ballot but with a middling 50/50 split they’ve shown they can’t even get that right no matter which way the vote goes.
I like and admire the British people very very much, but there’s a reason they’re over there and we’re over here. I’m sorry, but where liberty is concerned they’re not even up to the kind of stuff that even Canadians are made of.