They say the answer to your problem is your next problem. . . I can’t help but root for the Hawaiians. They’ll never get the haoles out of Oahu (because we could not give up Pearl Harbor nor let anybody else have it) but I think you could let them govern Molokai, Lanai, and Maui right now and it wouldn’t be unfair. Maybe Big Island too. Kauai I think is too enwrapped in national defense as well.
But what do I know. Very little.
I could go to the Big Island and live out the remainder of my days with nothing to do and be damn happy.
There are so many aspects to the problems in Hawaii. There is no going back to Hawaiian rule, they have Niihau, sort of. The stone age Hawaiian culture was not that mellow, either. There was cannibalism, for instance, as in many stone age Pacific Islands cultures. ANd currently many of the Hawaiian activists are serious extremists.
Now the corruptocrats ruling the state are not just haole but Hawaiian and Japanese and other races/ethncities. When I lived there the Hawaiian mafia had huge control, don’t know if it’s still the same, also the Chinese triad system was also powerful. So the problem is corruption, which needs to be rooted out. How? I don’t know. The tourism based economy is a recipe for corruption, that is part of the recipe.