As the United States descends further toward becoming a banana republic, support for secession from the union reaches new highs.
Monied interests obsessed with important unlimited peasant labor and unending war abroad have seized total control in Washington. Even democrat voters who’d been promised a minimum wage hike, student loan forgiveness, and no more foreign wars are feeling buyers’ remorse.
For the Right, the situation is deteriorating even more rapidly into an existential crisis. The country which, within the living memory of generation Y and older, denounced the Soviet Union for consigning dissidents to gulags, now holds and tortures political prisoners.
Meanwhile, America’s rulers huddle behind barbed wire and draft proposals to crack down on the invisible army of Nazis they blame for a protest whose only proven homicide victim was one of the protesters.
Amid all the confusion, the only certainty is that our rulers no longer share the least shred of commonality with the people they ostensibly represent. The government is already waging implicit war on its citizens. We can no longer trust our rulers, while they in turn hate and resent us.
That the time has come for a clean separation is a rational conclusion.
The problem is, a political divorce from Washington, even if it’s possible, may not resolve these conflicts.
It’s often remarked in dissident circles that a second American Civil War would bear little resemblance to the first. Instead of a first-generation conflict fought with cavalry charges, cannon, and bayonets, we could expect drone strikes, partisan guerrilla raids, and house-to-house urban warfare.
And though some or all of that would probably happen, contemplating those eventualities overlooks the main impediment to escaping the totalitarian regime that now controls America.
The phrase “totalitarian regime” probably conjured images of martial law, midnight knocks at the door, and work camps.
What you probably didn’t think of, but should have, is this:
Equating oppression only with state power is a relic of obsolete Conservative and Libertarian ideology.