Reply #24: Leaving British Rule was American. However, Abe Lincoln pointed out quite rightly that--

[Moonwalk]

--The United States is the UNITED States. It's "unAmerican" to un-unite the states. And if one state is allowed to do it, all can do it, and suddenly you don't have the "United States." You don't have "America." Hence, it's un-American.

As for the comparison, I completely agree. Apples and Oranges. Unlike the situation between America and England, States *DO* have rights and a good deal of autonomy. Such rights were created so that they wouldn't have to leave the Union as America felt it had to leave England because Americans were unable to make their own laws and decisions about their colonies. Likewise, democratically electing the leader of the U.S. was created for that reason as well. You're not, as with America and England, forced to be under a ruler who no one elected and who doesn't have to listen to your grievances because he's on the throne till he dies whether the people like it or not.

So, sorry, no, saying that "leaving America is just like America leaving Britain and therefore American" argument fails to hold water.