I hope you're taking notes, Brad. Here goes. The statement is not literal, the country is here still physically. However it has been co-opted by a small group of politicians, judges, and lobbyists who refuse to follow the will of the people, choosing instead to enrich themselves while eroding our freedoms. They make themselves unaccountable and collude across party lines to block all efforts we might make to restore some semblance of representative government. In short, there was a bloodless coup that the press refused to cover. The two parties merged without saying it out loud and the little guy, the man in the street, has lost any semblance of feeling like the government is for him, by him, or of him.
Taking it back means stopping the corruption and the lying. It means restoring a responsive and representative government that no long puts special interests ahead of the will of the people. It means putting in place leadership that no longer sees the constitution as a barrier to be overcome but rather cherish and honor it. When those things all happen, we the people will have our country back.
There ya go.
They are coming from out of town, sparky.
you said it better then I ever could.