History's Greatest Case of Stockholm Syndrome! - #NationalDivorce
Anti-secessionists sound like abusive spouses. "You'll never leave."
National divorce is an excellent metaphor. The two sides of America are in a toxic relationship, so it's time for an amicable separation.
But when one spouse doesn't want the other to leave, it gets messy. And if one tries to prevent the other from leaving, it gets abusive. Anti-secessionists too often sound like that abusive spouse – bullying, condescending, and frequently threatening violence.
Here's the kind of things they say.
“You're too weak to go alone.”
If we take weakness to mean economic weakness (and not a veiled threat of war), the anti-secessionist wants you to believe that a smaller country detached from the US would immediately fall into the third world. The idea is that bigger countries have better economies and higher standards of living, and smaller countries have smaller economies and lower standards of living.
But big countries can have mediocre economies and low standards of living, and plenty of small countries are economic powerhouses and wonderful places to live (such as Ireland, Singapore, Taiwan). And Europe is full of highly productive, prosperous little nations.
As long as you have the desire for independence, you're never too weak to…