“fiat currency backed up by the threat of government violence”
Your post reminds me of an old favorite:
https://www.amazon.com/No-Treason-Constitution-Authority/dp/1938357000
Truth hurts—a lot.
The truth is that homo sapiens still hasn’t figured out how to live in a society where we are not ripping off other people and telling them it is for their own good.
"But whether the Command "Thou shalt not murder" really be one thing, or another, this much is certain --- that it has either authorized murder, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
--Me, but not really
The Constitution by itself is words on paper, as effective as the childhood scribble of mine that I found among my mother's effects after she died.
The People (videlicet "WE") whose business it is to uphold it, and see to it that it is upheld, are its power.
When WE become ignorant, negligent, or resistant to our responsibility, it is WE who are unfit to exist as a free people.
Naturally, I believe in the severability of the People into those who
protect,
defend,
attack,
criticize,
deride,
hold in contempt, or
defile it.