MAY SECESSION SUCCEED!

MAY SECESSION SUCCEED!


Georgia and twenty-nine other of these supposedly United States want to secede? What a lovely idea!  Why doesn't everybody secede? 

There are enough decent humans--even in Georgia--to guarantee that there wouldn't be any slave states.  There aren't enough mock-Christians anywhere to make a Mock-Jesus Hate State, or enough  fanatical Mormons in Utah to make a Moronic  State.  (Alas, there aren't enough Native Americans anywhere to make even one Native American State.)

There isn't a single state that could afford its share of the mis-named Defense Department (it was the War Department until 1946).  No single American state could afford nuclear weapons--or even unmanned bomber-drones.  No single state could afford anything closer to a dysfunctional CIA than a sherrif's office.   No single state would dare swagger stupidly into wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria.  No single sovereign American state would have been able to bomb Lybia, or invade Grenada, or Lebanon, or Panama, or buy an army to overturn the government of Nicaragua, or try the Bay of Pigs invasion, or engineer the Cuban embargo, or try more than thirty times to murder Fidel Castro.

So let's all secede--for the world's sake.  Let's have the Disunited States of America.  "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" we used to say.  But we aren't united, and what we seemed to have been united for--vain, stupid, arrogant, capitalist power--has been bad for everybody.  So let's change the motto:  "Divided We Fall--For All."

Europeans may be smart enough--civilised enough, after all these centuries--to be united in a civilised manner.  It seems so.  And rather than conquer or buy their neighbor states, the European Union has invited states to join it--and is even paying to bring poorer states' standards of living up to a European par.

But the United States of America was not founded upon such social principles, and has never even tried to exist as such a genuinely cooperative society.  So let's encourage its disunification.  Maybe, someday, its people will become wise enough to want to live together in civilised society.

So . . . I say--with mixed feelings, to be sure--hooray for Georgia!