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rfmcdonaldThe website of this political party, apparently the work of L. Craig Schoonmaker (who has his very own blog), has always struck me as funny rather than offensive. Perhaps it shouldn't, since, as of 2002, 40% of Americans did favour Canada's annexation.
That attitude strikes me as odd. I can imagine certain changes in the United States' internal political structure--say, Puerto Rico becoming a state of the Union--but significant changes in American frontiers strike me as unlikely. There just isn't the sort of constituency outside of American frontiers to support that. I know that I shouldn't take the fact that, according to its counter, a website advocating Nova Scotian statehood only has 4027 visits. But still.
This is one area where American universalism conflicts with American realities, I suppose, just one more way demonstrating that Americans view their political structures as rather more universally applicable than they actually are, as example x of the principle that the way we do things must be wildly superior.
That attitude strikes me as odd. I can imagine certain changes in the United States' internal political structure--say, Puerto Rico becoming a state of the Union--but significant changes in American frontiers strike me as unlikely. There just isn't the sort of constituency outside of American frontiers to support that. I know that I shouldn't take the fact that, according to its counter, a website advocating Nova Scotian statehood only has 4027 visits. But still.
This is one area where American universalism conflicts with American realities, I suppose, just one more way demonstrating that Americans view their political structures as rather more universally applicable than they actually are, as example x of the principle that the way we do things must be wildly superior.
