As confidence in American institutions drops, support for secession rises.
This shift is not exclusive to conservatives. Even liberals, who voted for a higher minimum wage, student debt forgiveness, and a clean withdrawal from Afghanistan, are disillusioned with our rulers.
But dissidents aren’t immune to cognitive dissonance. Members of Gen Y, Gen X, and the Boomers who remember the fall of the Berlin Wall have difficulty accepting that America holds and tortures political prisoners.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the last big communist bogeyman show more concern for their people’s future than the sadists in Washington show for theirs.
Amid all the confusion, the only certainty is that our rulers no longer have the least thing in common with us. American’s government is at war with its citizens. We find our elites untrustworthy, and they find us loathsome.
As a result, more and more people are reaching the healthy conclusion that peaceful separation is the best solution.
The problem is, a political divorce from Washington, even if possible, may not prove sufficient. The main impediment to escaping America’s totalitarian regime is technological, not political.
The term “totalitarian regime” probably made you think of secret police, midnight knocks on the door, and labor camps.
What you probably didn’t think of, but should have, is this:
Assuming that only governments can oppress people is a vestige of Conservative and Libertarian ideology.
