Once, the colonies located in America were subject to the British Crown. But declaring independence, they became nations. New York, and Virginia, among others, became sovereign nation-states, distinct, and foreign to one another. Leaving Georgia was foreign travel, still foreign to this day.
Under Articles of Confederation, for mutual benefit, 13 nations created a society; not the United State, but United States of America, and landless. The USA was separate and foreign to each nation-state which created it. Unless authorized, the USA trespassed by entering any nation which formed it. It is trespass to this day.
The people’s homeland was their particular nation, never the USA. They were national citizens, not societal ones. They were true to their several nations.
But now we pledge loyalty to a machine, not the machinist. We proudly grovel, the servile minions of a society, subjecting our nations to a circuit board.
Like a man obeying his dog…
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