Grrreat post. Very interesting column as well as seriously informed posters reflected in their comments following.
Indeed RitaOK, this is the conversation of the early 21st century. But it will be a battle for sure. We’ve all been infected by a disease called nationalism and the antidote are history and facts.
It simply cannot be demonstrated that the signers of the ratification documents that “acceded” to the Constitution thought they were “surrendering” their sovereignty. Read the history of North Carolina’s ratification attempts. They failed until the Bill of Rights was passed believing it would ensure the newly created federal government wouldn’t trample on their State. Sadly, they were wrong. The other Wayward Sister, tiny Rhode Island waited almost two full years after NH ratified the Constitution to do so as well. Even then, they had to be kind of coerced into it by a very close 32-30 vote. Two votes. Is there any credibility to their desire not to be part of the new Union or where they just a bunch of redneck hayseeds like the nationalists make current day secession supporters out to be. Did you know that Rhode Island did not even send delegates to the Philadelphia Convention.
These and many other facts are the facts the nationalists do not want people to know. For when we do, we will bring down their little empire in Washington DC by breaking away from it.
Now, to be fair, I can’t blame all nationalists, just about everyone of us in this generation have been infected with this disease. But once we take the antidote (facts and history), we must fight to restore that which was usurped. The intentional nationalists (both progressive and conservative) are the real enemies of liberty. And they will be who we will do battle with always remembering though that our cause is just and right. There’s is about power and control over people.