When the tyrant Caesar was assassinated, more tyrants followed. Empires are ruled by one man and so are nations. The national feelings of elation at the defeat of Trump were real and glorious but Washington has rarely used its enormous power nationally. So watch out. Do you want a new California somewhere beyond our borders or are you alright with being pressed forever within our present boundaries? When I began arguing 9 years ago in this blog that we should admit new states to our 50 from all over the world, no one agreed. Look at Cuba on a map. It’s big and fertile and sun-drenched with hundreds of miles of oceanfront land. I know you are against admitting Cuba as an American state but I am baffled trying to figure out why. The Cubans, you say, don’t want to be Americans like the happy Cuban-Americans in Florida. They don’t want to be free to move to any one of 51 states and work there and vote there as citizens by simply living there. We should forget about Cuba and work here solving our own problems in our nation. We don’t want to have the right to go and live anywhere in Cuba with the same rights and privileges we would have moving to, say, New Mexico. We don’t need new Californias. We like things as they are. Okay, but there’s a big problem. Washington doesn’t govern. It uses its power as it wants not as we want. So you have your nation, I admit it, even though it is a fact that there has never been a nation, a viable nation, on the continent of North America. But that’s it. No new Californias. No new Cuban-Americans making hundreds of dollars more than what they now make working for peanuts in Cuba. We don’t want a United States of the World. Who knows, we may not even notice it when the next tyrant pops up in Washington.
Daniel F. McNeill https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L5IXSGO
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