Perhaps some of these authoritarian tactics are waning as we head into the second half of 2023. Perhaps the covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates are fully shelved. Perhaps the FBI and federal law enforcement have been brought to heel and will return to the constitutional limits on their power.
Not likely.
You can vote against neocons all you want, but they never go away.
As Tom Woods says, "No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain."
I identify with many of these, almost all of them.
Britain’s plan was to carve up the United States into colonial spheres of influence, to be distributed among the great powers of Europe.
That's an interesting claim; I wonder what the evidence for it is?
The United States would have ceased to exist 160 years ago.
That's not true at all. The United States would have continued among the states remaining in the federal union. When a state secedes from a federal union, it is not the case that the union between all of the states is dissolved; only that union between the seceding state and the other states in the union is dissolved.
A federal union is somewhat like a maximally connected graph, with states as the nodes, and the federal union consisting of the edges. When a state (node) leaves the federal union, it severs all of its immediate connections. The other connections among the other nodes, however, remain intact.
It seems that there has historically been much confusion on this matter, extending back even to contemporary events in the 1860s. Some people seemed to think then, and perhaps some still think now, that a dissolution of the union between a state and several other states means that the entire union is dissolved. But as we have seen, this is certainly not the case.
how to strike a balance between individual rights and majority rule?
Maybe the hard truth is that they are fundamentally at odds with one another. Maybe there is no resolution.
Why indeed should the rights of individuals be circumscribed by majority rule? As the adage goes, while the legislature is in session, no man's life or liberty is safe.