After all, how unified is the United States?
In America’s two-party system aren’t those two parties diametrically opposed over nearly every issue?
And what about the subdivisions of the many factions? Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Conservative Democrats, Liberal Democrats, Conservative Republicans, Liberal Republicans, Independents, Socialists, etc.
If unification is the ideal criteria, shouldn’t all these American factions be in unity or agreement before the US makes any important decision or takes any action or conducts its operations?
Have you ever watched Congress or the British Parliament in session? Do they exemplify unity?
If you really think about it, democracy is the opposite of unity, while only dictatorships demand unity.
So why should Hawai`i have to conform to a standard that no other nation, not even the US, is required to uphold?
In fact, aren’t we told that dissent, differences of opinion — what one could construe as disunity — is what makes democracy great?
In reality what makes democracy work is not unified thought or purpose or behavior, but an agreement to function in a civil manner despite our disagreements.
The US is leading the mantra, unity first, and many Hawaiians are becoming mesmerized by it.
The US knows full well that if it can get us to believe that we have to achieve unity first, we will never achieve that standard, and they can use that as an excuse to avoid the question of restoring Hawai`i as an independent nation.
A Free Hawai`i is the unifying cause. The various factions are already united in what matters most — the burning desire to see Hawai`i restored as an independent, sovereign nation.
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The 'risk' factor is high among our native people of the Hawaiian Islands and the Anglos are laughing. What is the risk factor; I feel it is the debunking of the real descendants that are still on land. The continuum of these families and knowing their stories are truly important. What is being marketed more often are people's voices of truth that have been disenfranchised from their ancestors land are now walking backwards down the aisle with thought of grandeur. The risk is high among native Hawaiians and we can only hope that the imploding of our people would not completely disintegrate the possibility of native Hawaiians in the future.