an orderly, unrushed and amicable relaxing of the political ties that bind us together too tightly would be to everyone’s benefit
well except those who see that the moment of Empire is now upon us and don’t want to miss it....
This is fantasy. The blue parts are precisely those who “see that the moment of Empire is now upon us and don’t want to miss it...” They will NEVER leave us alone, either here or anywhere else on earth.
“The moment of empire is upon us”
Excellent wordsmithing. It reminds me of the crossing of the Rubicon river by Julius Caesar, wherein the Roman Republic counts its end and the Roman Empire began.
Reminds me of a post I made about Certifigate
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2168149/posts?page=43#43
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled Certifigate Post Mortem , Kevmo wrote:
Here’s a hypothetical I posted at Intrade, which generated some insightful conversation.
https://bb.intrade.com/intradeForum/posts/list/555/2279.page
Here’s a set of hypotheticals for you. Let’s say you’re a loyal Roman republican with 5 buddies watching Caesar cross the Rubicon with his army, and you know full well what that means for the Roman republic. What is your duty at that point?
Let’s say you’re a loyal German who believes in democracy and you see Hitler making tanks instead of VW’s as he has promised the peepull. What is your duty at that point?
Let’s say you’re a loyal american constitutionalist and you see a marxist usurper cheating his way to the presidency, you file a lawsuit and it gets thrown out of SCOTUS within a week of the inauguration. What is your duty at that point?
I know, I know... no one ever really addresses a good hypothetical. Here’s an example: If the sky were green, would more people have green eyes? Many people say stuff like, “of course the sky ain’t green” or they go into the physics behind why the sky ain’t green or they ask you why you aren’t in with the yellow-eyed crowd or they say green-eyed people are just monsters or all kinds of things, but they never really address the hypothetical. So I shouldn’t hold out any hope that you’d be different.
But at least I’m on record with trying to stop this constitutional travesty and if I wander back to my farm in the highlands rather than continue the fight through further futile Roman Empire politics, that’s my business. The only guy who survived in that movie of ‘300’ was the one whose job it was to tell the history.