The Market Ticker - Ah, The Spanish Government CAN Do Math

All revolutions and secession events are prosecuted by small but real minorities.  In the US Revolution about three percent of the people actually took arms and fought the British.  We won.

Keep that in mind, because Span is dealing with a secession movement right now, not so much a revolution.  There the numbers are somewhat different — but not that much.  In the Civil War about 2.5 million out of 18.5 million, or roughly 13% of the population fought on the Union side; on the Confederate side it was in the same general range (accurate records are more-difficult for the Confederacy.)  Most of the Union solders were volunteers.

Of course the secession of the Confederacy failed.

Reality is that you often have plenty of people who are very pissed off one way or…….

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