Tag: Secession
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Western Alienation or Western Self-Interest?
Alberta is once again flapping about Alberta sovereignty. Every time Conservatives don’t get their way, they drag out the ‘western alienation’ bag and throw it around. Alberta and Saskatchewan may well seek to create a new nation, but the reality is that doing so would come with tremendous costs. Having said that, the likelihood of…
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Manifest Destiny Disaster
Recently, the extreme right kook aid klan, have espoused the idea that manifest destiny is possible for America. For Americans, it’s the concept that America was ‘divinely ordained’ to expand across North America. It’s also a sociopath’s wet dream. Divinely ordained, by whom? A fictitious superordinate being? Really? What simple-minded medieval relic thought that one…