George Rebane
Updating the recent progress report (here), Arcadia is the working name for a new confederation to be formed by the secessions of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Trump’s election has people now redoubled making plans for the reformation of the United States into a continent of seceded states and re-constituted regions to form a new, perhaps confederated, union of more like-minded political units. Where before the country’s Left considered any talk of the Great Divide to be radical, insane, or even treasonous, today that mood has changed as California leads in its desire to become an independent sovereign nation-state of like-minded leftwingers. Suddenly the notion of a North (aka State of Jefferson) and South California don’t seem so foreign any more.
As described here over the years, the Great Divide is a name that covers all the initiatives, organizations, and perhaps even conspiracies directed toward a new political map of North America consisting of parts that will have forsaken our Constitution, the historical United States, and the legacy of our Founders. The leader of the Arcadia faction is New Hampshire that is reported beginning to ‘fight for its independence.’ (more here)
In the 24jun17 Union Manny Montes of Auburn writes about the Left’s ongoing effort to have America accept that the Constitution does not mean what it says, but instead is a ‘living document’ to be interpreted in new ad hoc ways to reflect the times. There is no need to amend it as has been the past practice which the Founders anticipated. All we need do is just redefine the meaning of the original words as required by this or that new law, and then have an appropriate left-leaning court to bless the new interpretation, and voila, the Constitution lives! The result of such proceedings means that the Constitution will no longer have the unifying power that it has had for over 200 years to hold our nation together and strong. The intent of the Left is to make our Constitution like those of those other nations that rewrite theirs every ten years or so to mark the end of one period of uncertainty, division, and strife, and the start of the next. Mr Montes commentary can be found here.
Progressives have held up Canada as a paragon of how the United States should become so that it would become a more inclusive, sharing, and socially just state. This week Canada took its next big step into the future by criminalizing wrong speech. “Canada passed a law Thursday making it illegal to use the wrong gender pronouns. Critics say that Canadians who do not subscribe to progressive gender theory could be accused of hate crimes, jailed, fined, and made to take anti-bias training. …Canada’s Senate passed Bill C-16, which puts “gender identity” and “gender expression” into both the country’s Human Rights Code, as well as the hate crime category of its Criminal Code by a vote of 67-11,” Our progressives look with envy at what their northern neighbors have achieved that stands in such contrast with their own thwarted attempts to reinterpret the First Amendment. But they will not give up and promise us down here that it’s a comin’. (more here)
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