“Wait, 90% of 43% means that fewer then 4 out of 10 Catalans have declared the desire to be independent of Spain. That’s a terrible basis on which to found a country. I don’t think they’ve thought this through.”
Fortune favors the brave.
The USA became independent of Great Britain with as little as 15% support according to some historians. If Catalan independence has 40% active support while the rest are content to sit at home and watch the revolution on TV then the 40% are the only people who matter.
Well let’s see if they’re willing to win their independence the old-fashion way.
I don’t get the comparisons to American independence. The colonists had no recourse but violence because they had no say in their government. “No taxation without representation”. Catalans may have taxation but they also have representation. Also, as others have pointed out, the leaders of the independence movement are far to the Left. Not a George Washington or Thomas Jefferson in the bunch.