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“The Constitution is little more than an inconvenient nuisance to “progressives”. They ignore it and attempt to discredit it simply because it was written by white men, many of whom were slaveowners.

“Tyrants never willingly relinquish power.  The only way that the authorities in DC will be reformed is if that reform is forced upon them against their will… From the states.

“If the United States hopes to survive the coming storm, it will require courageous leadership from the states along with an ironclad commitment to the Constitution to ensure our salvation.

Can the States Save the Union?

By Gib Kerr

Thousands of anti-war activists, including newspaper publishers and even priests, were imprisoned by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.  Lincoln’s Secretary of State William Seward oversaw a secret police force that arrested vast numbers of citizens for “disloyalty” and—denying them due process—left them to rot in prison.

Seward claimed that he could “ring a bell” and have anyone arrested.  He apparently believed that you have to destroy civil liberties in order to save them.

Anyone recognize a pattern here?

The Southern states had sought to separate from the Union, proclaiming the right to secede.  Through four years of war—at a cost of nearly 700,000 lives—the Union was torn asunder, until the issue was settled by the brute force of Northern military victory.

The notion of states’ rights has ever since been tainted by its association with slavery and secession.  The Tenth Amendment is ignored and dismissed as a quaint reminder of the olden days.  From Lincoln to FDR to LBJ and Obama, the federal leviathan has exploded far beyond anything the Founding Fathers ever fathomed.

Power is concentrated in DC.  Money is concentrated in New York.  Information—through Big Tech and the media—is concentrated on the coasts.  All of this leaves Americans in Flyover Country feeling increasingly disenfranchised, powerless, and like feudal serfs, living more as subjects than citizens.

The seeds of a modern-day rebellion are being sown.  Not against the Union.  And not against the Constitution.  In fact, exactly the opposite.

Ironically, today’s rebels are those who stand up to defend the Constitution.  The tyrants who control the flow of information have undermined the First Amendment.  And these same coastal elites know that, in order to advance their agenda—and to eradicate opposition from the states—they must begin by eliminating the Second Amendment.

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