The present misery of Puerto Rico is an experiment in progress in un-anexation of territory. How can you exploit people, and have them be useful fools about it.
I know you are trying to make a literary point, but can you be more specific? The U.S. Army overthrew the government of Puerto Rico without the consent of the people of Puerto Rico; sounds like annexation to me.
hmmm Our European ancestors came here with the idea in their head;
manifest destiny; that "god" gave them all of this land, nevermind that there were several million people AKA Native Americans already living here. They carried this campaign called manifest destiny all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific. that big mess of water kinda put a monkey wrench into their plans to expand the American Empire across the land. so shortly before WW1 they came up with a solution. If the US was going to keep expanding its empire it would have to be across the ocean. That means a strong navy. and having a strong navy requires ports to repair ships..... so
Manifest Destiny a load of BS for the land was rebranded as a load of BS for the sea and given a new name
American Exceptionalism, thus begins the whole history of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Philippines vs US.
Trump and his base hate people with brown skin so much, we gotta wonder what will happen if we continue manifest destiny into Mexico. I dont think any of those brown people will be allowed to stay. Not to mention all the money wasted to build a wall in the middle of US real estate
O.P. Trump is one man. Ok we get that he is a little crazy and a lot stupid. But why is Congress busy kissin his ass instead of connecting a boot with it? Why are all the DC insiders putting up with his BS? Somebody needs to tell that Orange Terror how unAmerican he is. (credit to unknown) The founders wrote in the
Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal ( meaning the citizens of all nations) and then applied it to our own situation. If he thinks its ok to treat them Latinos as lesser humans, he is going against the founders which he supposedly respects