The last several decades of public education has been carefully designed to ensure the public doesn't know the difference.
How many Americans do you think have any understanding of the notion that our government derives it's power from the constitution? Or that government is limited at all beyond some vague notion of what the first and fifth amendments say?
At this point, our federal government is like any other government on the planet. They base their authority on force, recognize no limits, and are able to get the vast majority of the public to see this as legitimate through a little bit of propaganda.
At this point, we're an extreme minority just for questioning the absolute power of national government.
We're not under the rule of law anymore, based on the Constitution.
We know that, but the general public is a ways from realizing this.
'The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
The last several decades of public education has been carefully designed to ensure the public doesn't know the difference.
How many Americans do you think have any understanding of the notion that our government derives it's power from the constitution? Or that government is limited at all beyond some vague notion of what the first and fifth amendments say?
At this point, our federal government is like any other government on the planet. They base their authority on force, recognize no limits, and are able to get the vast majority of the public to see this as legitimate through a little bit of propaganda.
At this point, we're an extreme minority just for questioning the absolute power of national government.