Democracy...?
Posted on 09/21/2014 7:20:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
SCOTLAND GETS MONEY FROM LONDON...
MADRID GETS MONEY FROM CATALONIA...
Egg-zactly. But how do you draw a clever cartoon for it?
Good contrast.
I think a lot of the early support for Scotland independence was real but the socialists jumped on board the populism bandwagon and ran with it. Unfortunately the socialists made it more of a means of getting closer ties with the even bigger government EU. I think the socialists lost the true independence voters in the last days.
If I were a Scot, I would want independence but socialism was never going to deliver it. It can’t, independent socialism is an oxymoron.
Well put, very well indeed!
Socialism means interdependence which is the exact opposite of independence.
It needs a third panel: Washington to Texas.
Don’t know the source of this cartoon, but I’m highly amused when Americans criticize Spain for proclaiming secession to be illegal.
Let’s think. How did Americans handle a similar situation in our past?
In fairness, the Confederates gave the Union the excuse they needed to beat them into submission by firing on federal troops at fort Sumter. If they hadn’t have done that, the Feds would probably have just had to let them go.
It’s true Davis made a huge mistake.
But fighting would soon have broken out over something else.
There was an immense number of potential conflicts, ranging from borders to who got the territories, etc.
The period between the first round of secession and Sumter was an extended chess game for advantage in the remaining unseceded slave states.
Had they all gone with the Union, the War would have been over in less than a year, and slavery would have continued roughly as before in the reunited Union.
Had all the slave states gone with the CSA, the War would also have been short, and the CSA’s independence would have been permanently established, though followup wars would have been almost certain.
What actually happened was the the unseced slave states split almost exactly down the middle, resulting in a long, bloody war ending only when the CSA was pounded into reluctant submission.
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