@LudwigNverMises@Angry_Giant Your response to our objections to being rug-pulled when it came time for Trump to follow rhetoric with action is to tell “nuh-uh, you’re gay.”
Pretty faggoty, there, bud.
Lincoln used hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who did not even speak English to invade and crush half the country. He destroyed the Republic of the Founding and replaced it with a corporation that serves corporate and foreign interests.
The use of brute force to pervert the nation of the founding opened the door to the federal government serving corporate and foreign interests. You may find the wielding of that force inspiring and masculine, but it was NOT done in the service of the culture you identify with.
Your government wages war without your input, taxes you and sends your wealth to foreigners without your consent, devalues the money you earn (that it lets you keep) without your consent, propagandizes you constantly, and is preparing legislation to integrate our military with Israel's.
We still live here, but we exercise little to no power, and unless you enjoy working to subsidize foreigners, it is NOT going back our way.
The notion of one unified super-state ruled by Washington would have been ridiculed as tyrannical nonsense by almost all Americans prior to 1865. Half the Union Army or better spoke German rather than English.
The States that seceded spoke one language, had one religion, and believed that their States were their nations, joined together in alliance for common defense.
They also believed that their nations had the right to secede from any alliance that became a threat to that sovereignty.
Renouncing allegiance to a government that views you as a cow on a tax farm doesn't mean you're no longer white, or Protestant, or American. Telling oppressive government to fuck off is as American as it gets.
@Localist132215@Romavictri35387 So the disconnect here is that you don't object to power, you want to wield it, and believe you (or someone you designate) can do so without being corrupted by it.
Do you think that power has a tendency to corrupt those who wield it? Or do you not care about that?
My fundamental argument is that the government of the United States as it's currently functioning is illegitimate, and should be dissolved.
If a nation (people) and state (government) are not one in the same, why would it necessarily follow that the nation dissolving the illegitimate state would tear the nation asunder?
@Romavictri35387@Localist132215 And do you think that shared European ancestry and Protestant faith constitutes the basis for how we're governed, currently?