Its legitimate as long as people give it legitimacy. I know there lots of folks that do not but there are still many that don't have their head screwed on straight that do.
A lot of people would give homosexual marriage and pedophilia legitimacy - that does not make them legitimate in the Law of God.
Whom are we Subject to first? God or men?
If it is God, then the wickedness and tyranny of men that we see displayed by the federal Beast has no legitimacy over a people who are subject to God first.
That may make us criminals in the eyes of tyrants and their sycophants who are angered that we will not bow our knees to their Baal. So be it. They may kill us - but we will still not support or follow their god.
I know there lots of folks that do not but there are still many that don't have their head screwed on straight that do.
That would be because government is their god and not The Most High. This Federal Beast has lost all authority to govern a moral and righteous people - this MUST be preached if holding onto our liberties is something we desire to do.
The next step depends on it.