 |
| http://www.brainjet.com/random/4081/14-freakiest-coincidences-of-history |
Related to the whole karma thing of hard-to-explain-events (previous post) there are also those Moments in Time where historical events mysteriously coincide (click here for some examples. One of the most famous ones in history is the whole Kennedy-Lincoln parallels.)
We may be witnessing another of those historical/coincidental moments as currently there are 4 secessionist movements in various stages underway around the world. In England, the Brexit movement is hashing out it’s details for the UK to withdraw from the EU. In Catalonia, Spain citizens recently passed a referendum declaring their intentions to secede from the rest of Spain. In northern Iraq, the Kurds have similarly declared their independence from the rest of Iraq. And here in the United States, folks in California are talking about secession from us.
All four of these movements involve areas that feel they are ponying up more to support the parent State than they are receiving back. The Kurds for instance are sitting on the majority of Iraq’s oil fields and accordingly feel that they should be independent from the rest of Iraq. A civil war over the issue appears imminent and guess who is right smack dab in the middle of it?
Yep, we are currently allies with both sides of the warring factions. Don’t you think that this would be a perfectly good time for us to secede entirely from having anything to do with either side while they figure all this out for themselves? Our President Trumpster says we are not taking sides, so go figure if that’s true or not. (Keep in mind that the Donald is not well known nor widely hailed as being as “Honest Don.”)
 |
| http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/is-california-really-going-to-secede.html |
As for our own internal secession issue of California wanting to say “See ya” to us, Californians are probably wasting their time trying to put the issue on the 2018 ballot for a vote. Even if the majority of California voters did elect to secede, the matter must still pass our Congress and be approved via a Constitutional Amendment process and that’s just not going to happen. For better or worse then, we are stuck with one another. (If those wild fires keep burning however, there may not be much of the Golden Bear State left anyway.)
Here is John Hiatt writing about the ultimate secession – his first wife’s suicide.