I know I criticize the United States of America a lot. Some might say I hate America. But I disagree. I don’t look at America as the United States Government.
The United States Government is an illegitimate organization, committing mass murder and theft on a grand scale without the consent of the governed. We try to lie to ourselves and say that we willingly accepted this form of government through a democratic process, but as Rothbard points out in the book Anatomy of the State, if that is the case, the Jews in Germany willingly accepted the Nazi regime. This is of course ridiculous.
“Under this reasoning, any Jews murdered by the Nazi government were not murdered; instead, they must have “committed suicide,” since they were the government (which was democratically chosen), and, therefore, anything the government did to them was voluntary on their part. One would not think it necessary to belabor this point, and yet the overwhelming bulk of the people hold this fallacy to a greater or lesser degree.”
I love America, and everything I love about America is in spite of its government. Even though the people are massively uninformed, they did not choose to inflate the dollar out of existence, aid in the genocide of helpless thousands in Yemen and Palestine, or incarcerate staggering numbers of people for victimless crimes. The United States government, run by a small group of elite psychopath pedophiles, are the ones responsible for these atrocities.
This trend is true throughout history. Slavery, removal of the American Indians, experiments of the Tuskegee Project, all these heinous acts have been perpetrated by the government, not by peaceful people wanting to be left alone.
And as far as our republic has fallen and become the very empire it set out to separate itself from, the 4th of July still holds sentimental value to me. Colonists who wanted to be left alone and didn’t feel the need to subsidize a worldwide empire finally decided they had enough and threw off an oppressive government.
I believe that this sentiment still exists in many Americans today. And I hope that we can peacefully nullify our way out of this mess instead of bringing us to a bloody conflict as was the case with both previous secessions. Just remember as they try to gaslight you into thinking that the January 6th protest at Capitol Hill was somehow a violent insurrection that must be denounced at all costs as the worst thing that has ever happened in American history, that on the 4th of July, you are indeed celebrating a violent insurrection against a tyrannical empire.
“Live Free or Die!”