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Days remain to enjoy “Forgottonia: The Musical,” an original production presented online about a region seceding from the United States.
Loosely based on a real, if satirical, brainstorm by the late Neal Gamm in western Illinois in the early 1970s, the show is streaming at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday on www.youtube.com/flynorththeatricals.
Gamm, a Viet Nam veteran and theater student, boosted western Illinoisans’ feeling that the area was ignored, especially in transportation. Maps of the 16 counties along the Mississippi River then showed it was a “fly-over” (even “can barely get there”) territory. As Forgottonia’s self-proclaimed governor, Gamm, who died in 2013, got a lot of attention for a little while, from Springfield lawmakers to the New York Times. But then his public-relations act played out.
Biden’s Call for Unity was Timely President Joe Biden spoke about the dire need for unity, tolerance, and respect
America is known as the world’s first democracy and as a country where different ethnicities coalesce to constitute the quintessential “American”. But closer scrutiny would reveal that, from the beginning to the present day, its history has been pockmarked by disunity, violence, racial discrimination, economic inequality, and even secessionist tendencies.
What happened on January 6, when White racist hoodlums, exhorted by the then President Donald Trump, stormed into Capitol with some even intending to kill the Vice President and House Speaker, was only the latest incident of intolerance and lawlessness in the history of the US.
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Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann, a Republican, says he will introduce the bill for a referendum as early as this week on whether Texas should assert its independence from the United States.
The notion, which has been batted around Texas for generations, looms much larger now in the wake of the violence in the U.S. capital.
While baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election have sowed discord in the country, advocates of a Texit insist the effort is not about Trump. It s being dismissed as a fringe phenomena, until the moment where it surprises everybody and becomes mainstream, said Richard Kreitner, a secession expert. I think it s going to be the story of the 2020s.
| UPDATED: 16:42, Tue, Dec 15, 2020
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