@jbf1755 On MSNBC, Jamelle Bouie said something like: 'they've given up on trying to persuade people.'
That has stuck with me. It's true here. On the Ohio vote. On the defiance of subpoenas. It's all the same thing--they don't have good ideas and have to force them now.
In the summer of 1787, a group of people - all white men - gathered in Philadelphia in a convention to write the governing documents for the new United States. The Revolutionary War had been over for almost four years, and the first agreement uniting the colonies, the Articles of Confederation, had proven to be woefully inadequate.
In an article written shortly after the Brexit vote in the UK, Philip Bump of the Washington Post wrote a tongue-in-cheek guide on "How to Secede" for US states. His list of options:
1) Ask Nicely
2) Amend the Constitution
3) Armed Rebellion
4) Await the Collapse of the US
We think that #2 offers the best chance that unhappy states could leave the Union without bloodshed.
Your thoughts?
In the summer of 1787, a group of people - all white men - gathered in Philadelphia in a convention to write the governing documents for the new United States. The Revolutionary War had been over for almost four years, and the first agreement uniting the colonies, the Articles of Confederation, had proven to be woefully inadequate.
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