Imagine being an American colonist in 1776!
All around you are thousands of other colonists who look to the future, citing Creator-endowed individual liberty for every person under a form of self-government based on "Natural law," or, "the laws of Nature."
Yet, your neighbor (who likes to be the center of attention and self-described "defender" of special groups she selects as "worthy" of rights), declares she knows what is best for everybody and that she does not recognize the votes of those "deplorable" persons who reject her form of "Progressive" power over people (for their own good, you know).
As colonists, you and your 18th Century friends whose ancestors have braved an ocean and a wilderness in order to raise their families in freedom from oppressive government, write a Declaration of Independence from that government's oppression, and resolve to live like free people who can chart their own future, under God's Providence, and receive "the Blessings of Liberty."
Yet, there stands that know-it-all neighbor, screaming and pointing to herself, shouting, "What Happened?"--as she watches real progress take place among those neighbors she has called "deplorable" and "unredeemable."
She looks pretty silly and shallow, don't you think?
“Yet, your neighbor (who likes to be the center of attention and self-described “defender” of special groups she selects as “worthy” of rights), declares she knows what is best for everybody and that she does not recognize the votes of those “deplorable” persons who reject her form of “Progressive” power over people (for their own good, you know).”
They were here.
They were called Tories/Loyalists.
Nearly all left when England gave up at Yorktown.
They skedaddled up to Canada before the Patriots ended their existence.