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I recommended this article for republication to the editors at https://www.resilience.org.

Patrick, my brother, you're ready for the Big Time in publishing your work, and I'm standing behind you as perhaps your biggest cheerleader. Let's move you from Substack to the Big Time. You've got a voice our world needs in a larger pond than this one.

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"Thus, I would distinguish myself from my secessionist friends and call myself a confederationist."

Even though I'm basically an anarchist in my political philosophy, Patrick, I actually agree with you -- but only....

But only if we can make swift transformations in the centrifugal direction and within sound ethical principles that probably most Americans would agree with.

And thanks for the use of the word "centrifugal". It's a word -- alongside 'centripetal' which (in relation to how political power functions) ought to receive a hell of a lot more attention in all political discourse in today's crummy world of political discourse.

If we do not move -- swiftly -- in a centrifugal political direction then I'll throw my voice behind succession -- but reluctantly. Secession would likely be a bloody mess in the British sense of the word. And it may be a bloody mess in a literal sense, too. And I'm a peaceful anarchist if ever you've met one!

Much appreciation to you for your hard thinking and necessary writing, my brother!

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