Will the Secessionist Epidemic Ever End?

Townhall.com ^ | "December 17, 2019 | Pat Buchanan

[central_va]

Secession isn’t about taxes. How trivial to think that.

[Kaslin]

I did a Duckduckgo.com search on Halicarnassus and found this:

Halicarnassus was an ancient Greek city at what is now Bodrum in Turkey. It was located in southwest Caria on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf. The city was famous for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, also known simply as the Tomb of Mausolus, whose name provided the origin of the word "mausoleum". The mausoleum, built from 353 to 350 BC, ranked as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

Location:Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It was a Greek colony that left and later joined up with Persia.

Queen Artemisia the First is famous because she personally commanded five ships in the war between the Greeks and Persians.

Queen Artemisia the Second is famous because she had the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus built.

Oh and during the reign of Queen Artemisia II Rhodes tried to succeed. She convinced them of the error of their ways.

My point is that colonies splitting off from their parent country or even countries splitting up is not something that started with America.

[rbg81]

It simply does not compute.

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Why not? The Scots have been fighting to get free of England for four hundred years

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Oh, so then the rest of Europe can tell the Scots what to do instead? That does not sound much like freedom to me.

[Svartalfiar]

She has a point. If a majority of Scots wish to secede, how does a democratic Great Britain indefinitely deny them the right of self-determination?

So what, you keep having elections every six months to see if enough people have changed their minds? Or enough people get tired of voting that you can lose the vote 10MM to 15MM, but two years later win it 9MM to 5MM because no one wants to vote anymore?

If they really want to say that a 'majority' voted for it, make it a real majority. Doesn't matter what the vote winner is, you just have to get a majority of eligible voters to succeed. So even if 50% of the population votes, you now need 100% of those votes to get the 50% of eligible voters.

Taiwan's secession is not recognized by China.

Taiwan didn't succeed, it's basically a government in exile. Both RoC and PRC claim ownership of the mainland and Taiwan.