As someone who grew up in and around El Paso, Texas many years ago, I started joking that the worst mistake Texas ever made was allowing the rest of the Union to join us. I've now come to believe it.
I now live in Outback Australia where I feel more free than I have on my recent trips back to the US. What I see on US news these days makes me alternately want to scream or cry for one of the countries I love, the land of my birth. I will most likely live out the rest of my days in the land Down Under, unless there is a radical change 'back home'.
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another ..."
So begins the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies from the king and country to which they had given allegiance since the settlers first came to Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.
The declaration was signed by 56 angry old white guys who had had enough of what the Cousins were doing to them. In seceding from the mother country, these patriots put their lives, fortunes and honor on the line.
Four score...
I love those Aussies. They've done it right.
Now all they got to do is disallow immigration from muslim countries and they may actually have a decent society in the future.