“ABOLISH ALL ANTI-GAY LAWS! LAVENDAR PEOPLE” – “NONE OF US IS FREE UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE,” Christopher Street West Parade, West Hollywood, California, June 1972. Photo by Cathy Cade, c/o Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley (@ucberkeleyofficial). #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #CathyCade (at West Hollywood, California)
Having grown up in Norway, which in many ways is a similar country to Scotland, I have practically no doubts Scotland /can/ survive as an independent nation.
(Obviously I also have plenty of reasons why Scotland /should/ be independent, but that’s not the topic of this post)
Growing up, I was taught in school about how Norway was treated as just another region of Denmark, and then later ruled by Sweden, for a total of about 500 years. Since going independent, Norway’s gone from being one of the poorest countries in Europe to being one of the richest in the world. And sure, oil had a great deal to do with that, but Scotland’s got about the same amount of oil as Norway does, and a roughly similar population.
Basically, I’m seeing a lot of parallels here, and I’m convinced if Norway could go independent and succeed, Scotland can as well
