They had to check the Tea Partiers first. Then the gun owners, then Bible thumpers...
As citizens we tend to self-aggrandize and over estimate our position in life.
We are of the lowest caste, chattel, expendables, drones, bitter clingers, revenue sources* and the breeders. Our votes are manipulated to fix elections.
They minimize the importance of US citizenship by planning to give it away to 40 million illegal immigrants.
Self rule in the US? Ha!
* With deficit spending taking over 1/3 of expenditures they no longer need to raise taxes to increase spending and we are too stupid to know inflation is the stealth tax on all our wealth.