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Who: Kimball Corson. Text and Photos not disclaimed or that are obviously not mine are copyright (c) Kimball Corson 2004-2016
Port: Lake Pleasant, AZ
09 April 2018 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
An Informed Atheist Re-Addresses Christianity
10 March 2018 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
A Progressive Reform Program for America
10 March 2018 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
Supply Side and Libertarians Are Wrong and Not Supported by the Data
10 March 2018 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
How Income Inequality Injures People and the Economy
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
A Democratic Reform Program for America
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Supply Side Libertarians Are Wrong and Not Supported by the Data
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Rise of Economic Ignorance
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part VI)
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part V)
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part IV)
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part III)
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part II)
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Rise of Income Inequality (Part I)
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
Racial Hatred Is Confused
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
What To Do About North Korea
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
On Neoliberalism
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
Ban Hate Marches and Assemblies
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
On Miss Piggy and Mr. Pork
22 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
The Demise of the Democratic Party
09 August 2017 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
On Elitism

Divided We Thrive -- United We Fall

19 September 2014 | Pago Pago, American Samoa
Kimball Corson
Secession, the Civil War and the Red and Blue States

A new survey finds that one in four Americans are open to the idea of secession. The divide between the Red and Blue states seems irreparable. The split is multifaceted. Our Civil War in some regards never seems over. Did Lincoln make a mistake holding the Union together? The mental divisions remain. Texas and North Carolina will never be much like Massachusetts and New York. The divides are huge. They reach to habits, lifestyles, education and many other dimensions.

The Red states resent the Blue States and politically align with Republicans and the politically motivated Oligarchy. The Blue States think the Red States act retarded and have values which consign them toward being the way they are -- backward and at the bottom along many desirable dimensions of measurement. The Red States blow such assessments off. If the nation could be divided between Red and Blue states, it might make considerable sense. With adjustments, that could readily happen. Implicit in the survey results on being open to succession, that idea seems to be buried and be presently unspoken. I elect to give it voice.

The Red States resent the Blue States and want to be left alone to go their own ways. The Blue States, in turn, feel economically and socially held back and pulled down by the Red States, The economic and life style choices of the Red States make little sense to the Blue States, and the Red States detest much about the Blue states rather indiscriminately. A division I suspect makes considerable sense.

Total geographic proximity or contiguity seems not to be required or necessary. Our experience with Alaska and Hawaii proves that point. We could create alliances or have treaties to coordinate and cooperate between the two new nations where we chose, just as with any other country. Citizenship would be by state of residence with an adjustment period to elect and move before becoming by free choice locked in. The same could be true for corporations as to their states of origin and principal places of business. The federal system of government, so abhorrent to the Red States, could be continued by the Blue States and the Red States could revert to the Articles of Federation or whatever strikes their minimalist collective fancy. The political oligarchs, who are mostly conservatives, could go with the Red States and largely get what they want in these regards to prove or fail to prove their recommendations

It would be a grand test, in a way, on whether liberalism or conservatism -- in all the many dimensions of each -- would better serve the interests and advancement of its respective citizenry, although history and present analyses put the handwriting on the wall. It would prove which system and mindset is the greater fool, who could adjust best and which system best provides for its citizenry. I think such a test and assessment would be tremendously useful. The competition could prove useful as well and many conservatives would disappear from Congress and thereby eliminate our on-going governmental stalemate.

It is time to begin discussing the idea. The more I think about it, the better I like it.
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Vessel Name: Altaira
Vessel Make/Model: A Fair Weather Mariner 39 is a fast (PHRF 132), heavily ballasted (43%), high-aspect (6:1), stiff, comfortable, offshore performance cruiser by Bob Perry that goes to wind well (30 deg w/ good headway) and is also good up and down the Beaufort scale.
Hailing Port: Lake Pleasant, AZ
Crew: Kimball Corson. Text and Photos not disclaimed or that are obviously not mine are copyright (c) Kimball Corson 2004-2016
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Kimball Corson: I am a 75 year old solo sailor, by choice. However, I did take on a personable, but high maintenance female kitten, now a full grown cat, named KiKiPoo when she is sweet, or KatKatPo after she has just killed something like a bird or bat. [...]
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Although I was a lawyer and practiced law with good success for thirty years, creating significant new law, I never really believed in the law, the politics of law or in the over reaching self-interest of most lawyers I met. Too much exposure to Nietzsche and other good and seriously thoughtful [...]
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Who: Kimball Corson. Text and Photos not disclaimed or that are obviously not mine are copyright (c) Kimball Corson 2004-2016
Port: Lake Pleasant, AZ