The federal gov’t is aswarm with Wesley Mouches and worse. We are almost wholely changed from a nation of liberty - do what you want unless it is explicitly prohibited - to a nation of feudalism - do nothing without explicit permission. The (once) sovereign states are now shackled to a behemoth federal corspe that is sinking beneath the waves of history. The time has come for the states to seriously consider whether, indeed, the Constitution is a suicide pact. Shall we all be drowned just because the North won the Civil War?
Who was I listening to? I think it was VDH. In 1941 Nazi Germany controlled all of Europe and Saharan Africa, the US wasn’t in the war, the Soviet Union was essentially allied with Germany, Japan was conquering the Pacific, and Great Britain stood alone. How dark were those days! Few would have said that by 1945 Hitler would be dead, Germany surrendered, and Japan defeated.
It’s dark now, and maybe even darker because there are so few real men, but I think men will rise to the need. We will, because we must.