Seceding would demonstrate freedom. As long as you comply with Mummy's rules, you are "free".
Democracy as it is run has little to do with freedom. The USA had elections which voted to keep Negroes as slaves. They [those allowed to voite] voted that slavery was poor form in 1865: usconstitution.net
Right now, they vote that people shall be citizen-serfs. That's a modified form of slavery and property confiscation. Such "freedom" includes the right to be conscripted by press gangs and forced into the army to kill or be killed.
On the scale of political freedom, non-voting Hong Kong citizens and residents are higher on the scale than voting citizen-serfs of democracies. That's like being a House Nigger. It beats being beaten in the cotton fields. But it's still slavery.
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PS: South Carolina was not allowed to secede. Freedom in the Land of the Free is circumscribed: <South Carolina voted to secede from the United States as a result of Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presidency. Lincoln had, over time, voiced strong objections to slavery, and his incoming administration was viewed as a threat to the right of the states to keep their institutions, particularly that of slavery, the business of the states. More states seceded, eleven in all, forming the Confederate States of America. The secession movement led to the Civil War. In the waning days of the war, which ran from 1861 to 1865, the Congress approved an amendment to abolish slavery in all of the United States. Once the CSA was defeated, approval of the 13th Amendment was quick in the Northern states. By the end of 1865, eight of the eleven Confederate states had also ratified it. Proposed on January 31, 1865, it was ratified on December 6, 1865 (309 days). Eventually, all of the CSA states except Mississippi ratified the 13th after the war; Mississippi ratified the amendment in 1995. > |
