08-16-2020, 04:56 PM
(08-16-2020, 03:46 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Here is my issue with that. The people that are making these claims, these cries for individual over collective, these displayers of Gadsden flags, are coming from the supporters of a person that is actively trying to undermine our democracy, which is tyranny. So a long history/tradition of personal liberty doesn't really matter in this regard.
I's say it's quite possible for some to claim a "long history/tradition of personal liberty" without actually knowing much about that history/tradition, at least as the evolution of a specific form of government relying on popular sovereignty and separation of powers.
The groups you allude to seem more atavistic, modeling behavior on tribal modes of group identification/rights rather than the concept of rights-based citizenship.