Statist? Your old grandmother! Listen pal, I’m a former Leftist who once ‘’sipped the Kool-aid’’ and you sound remarkably like the people I left behind. I’m now a passionate conservative. Since when is wanting to live in The United States of America, as in all fifty of them ‘’statist’’?
You have still got a lot to learn, especially US history. IMO being an ex-leftist is nothing to be proud of. It's like saying I was a former child pornographer. Just get over it and move on no need to advertise your previous scumminess.