General Discussion

I have trouble understanding why the people of any country continue to support a hereditary monarchy, in which one person by accident of birth is considered to be superior and worthy of near-worship while the rest of the population struggles to get by. (Why, yes - I just finished Q: A Voyage Around The Queen, by Craig Brown).

Another point that many of the "let's join up with Canada" enthusiasts overlook is that a large part of the US was never British territory. Much of the lower midwest was colonized by the French and Spanish, the southwest, Texas, and California by the Spanish. The Ohio Valley was controlled by the British, but they forbade Americans from settling there (or tried to - a great What If? is whether the British could effectively unite the Native Americans under Tecumseh or someone else to keep the US penned east of the Appalachians). We learn about Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion in school from an East Coast perspective, but IMHO this neglects the millions of people who were there at the time. So let's stop trying to wishful-think our way into some Anglo-American super country in North America and start working on trying to save what we have.