Lots of thoughts on this one. Going to come at this from the perspective of someone who’s family has been in the same county since 1745, in a state where the revolution saw 20% of its casualties occur arguably had more engagements than any other state depending on how your reckon what counts and the revolution was more like bleeding Kansas. We were also the first state to exercise our constitutional right to secession however one feels about our motive for doing so. My people also only kinda went to town, we all take jobs in town now but we never moved to town we still live outside of town and grow a good chunk of our own food and keep livestock.
My dad is a land surveyor and started his own firm around the time I was born. We had a higher standard of living than income alone would have allowed because we had a pond to fish, blackberries, pecans and grapes my great grandparents put on the property. My mother added blueberries and we never really stopped gardening. We had a wood stove for heat in the winter and I vaguely remember life without air conditioning in South Carolina at the ripe old age of 38. Being a land surveyor the old man always knew somewhere that was being developed and could arrange for a couple trees to not get hauled off after getting felled so we could swing by on a Saturday, cut them up, split them and take them home. All the land and the house? Basically my dad getting the bulk of his inheritance when it was time to start a family instead of when he was 60-65. Philosophically the less one can provide directly to one’s self or through barter in neighbor/kin networks the more one is dependent on compliance to the system(s) that provide those things both corporate and government. See covid vaccines as an example however one feels about the necessity and/or effectiveness of the vaccine.
On to the other stuff. I don’t see it as a racial issue but I do think it takes generations to assimilate into a community not years or months. By community I mean a county/town/section of a city, not a state or country. Some level of cohesion being necessary for peaceful society at the community level that probably does mean not letting the percentage of unassimilated people get to high, that said there’s still lots of room to let immigrants in to start their own towns and communities from scratch. As I said not a race thing in point of fact every time it comes up all the people I know from this county agree we’d rather have Mexicans than yankees more than double our county population in 40 years. Secession? Absolutely and anyone who picks the national over the state or the state over the county is a traitor to his home not the other way around. People aren’t from Spain or Canada or the US they are from the community they were born and raised in. Revolution? The real check on government overreach is length of time the government has held power. Not the structure of the government or the morals of the people running it. When you start basically from scratch with governmental infrastructure you have to build all that out before you can start doing other things as more and more budget becomes available and who ever heard of a government or group of oligarchs which all governments become willingly giving up power.
Lots of thoughts on this one. Going to come at this from the perspective of someone who’s family has been in the same county since 1745, in a state where the revolution saw 20% of its casualties occur arguably had more engagements than any other state depending on how your reckon what counts and the revolution was more like bleeding Kansas. We were also the first state to exercise our constitutional right to secession however one feels about our motive for doing so. My people also only kinda went to town, we all take jobs in town now but we never moved to town we still live outside of town and grow a good chunk of our own food and keep livestock.
My dad is a land surveyor and started his own firm around the time I was born. We had a higher standard of living than income alone would have allowed because we had a pond to fish, blackberries, pecans and grapes my great grandparents put on the property. My mother added blueberries and we never really stopped gardening. We had a wood stove for heat in the winter and I vaguely remember life without air conditioning in South Carolina at the ripe old age of 38. Being a land surveyor the old man always knew somewhere that was being developed and could arrange for a couple trees to not get hauled off after getting felled so we could swing by on a Saturday, cut them up, split them and take them home. All the land and the house? Basically my dad getting the bulk of his inheritance when it was time to start a family instead of when he was 60-65. Philosophically the less one can provide directly to one’s self or through barter in neighbor/kin networks the more one is dependent on compliance to the system(s) that provide those things both corporate and government. See covid vaccines as an example however one feels about the necessity and/or effectiveness of the vaccine.
On to the other stuff. I don’t see it as a racial issue but I do think it takes generations to assimilate into a community not years or months. By community I mean a county/town/section of a city, not a state or country. Some level of cohesion being necessary for peaceful society at the community level that probably does mean not letting the percentage of unassimilated people get to high, that said there’s still lots of room to let immigrants in to start their own towns and communities from scratch. As I said not a race thing in point of fact every time it comes up all the people I know from this county agree we’d rather have Mexicans than yankees more than double our county population in 40 years. Secession? Absolutely and anyone who picks the national over the state or the state over the county is a traitor to his home not the other way around. People aren’t from Spain or Canada or the US they are from the community they were born and raised in. Revolution? The real check on government overreach is length of time the government has held power. Not the structure of the government or the morals of the people running it. When you start basically from scratch with governmental infrastructure you have to build all that out before you can start doing other things as more and more budget becomes available and who ever heard of a government or group of oligarchs which all governments become willingly giving up power.