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Unless you fundamentally disagree with what the government decides you should do in which case it wields something we like to call "the monopoly on violence" to put you in your place.
Once you start killing people because they peacefully disagree with you and just don't want to play your game any more you're pretty much wielding absolute power.
Ergo, you are a tyrant.
I see plenty of good within our country too.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not calling for secession.
But if there's a disagreement over what the Constitution means, and the government doesn't come down on the side of securing the individual rights of the people, then the government has jumped the shark and is no longer operating according to the Constitution.
We've incrementally gotten to the point where the people serve the government, and not the other way around.
Again, I'm not calling for secession, but I live a pretty comfortable life at this point and the pain involved in turning against the government would be far worse than tolerating their bull**** for the time being.
But I can think of a number of issues that, should the government decide to go the way of pandering to the collective rather than securing individual rights would have me out in the woods practicing rhythm drills and IADs with a small cell of like minded individuals, if that makes sense.
Individual rights can exist in a collective because the individual rights of one person can be applied to a group.