R.I.P. United States of America

(July 4, 1776 — July 2 2024)

July 4, 1776 is when people of the US mark the founding of their nation/state, which is when a group of top governing officials of each of the 13 British colonies along the Pacific coast, who's names are known to most American schoolchildren today, voted to secede from the government of Britain and declare a new government. The new government went through a few iterations before a written constitution was drafted and ratified, establishing the constitutional rule of law as it exists (existed) in its present form (until recently).

Now, July 2, 2024, the supreme authority of this government, the Supreme Court, just declared that the office of the president now has the power act arbitrarily, without regard for the constitutional rule of law. The Supreme Court had been brazenly ignoring the constitution for quite some time now, but as of today it is official: the constitutional rule of law does not exist anymore in the United States. More accurately, the rule of law is whatever the total authority of the president arbitrarily decides, which is effectively no different than an totalitarian authoritarian state unbound by any constitutional rule of law.

This did not happen suddenly. The political forces involved in this decision have been in play for many decades now. I think the people of the US really should take this is a wake-up call: the US is not a democratic republic under constitutional rule of law. It arguably never was*, but now it really should be absolutely clear that their government is not a democratic republic in any way, shape, or form. I would advise US citizens to start acting accordingly, for the sake of your own personal safety. If you ever become the victim of some crime committed by people acting on behalf of the government, understand that you probably have no legal recourse, and anything you do in the name of justice might be considered illegal.

* The roughly 700,000 slaves and 1.5 million women (according to the first US census taken in 1790), along with countless other so-called "Native Americans," who all resided with the territories of the US, were not considered citizens with full rights and privileges under the US government, and gained citizen status only in stages, beginning with the conclusion of the US Civil War in 1865 which officially abolished slavery, and culminating with the signing of the civil rights act of 1964. A mere 60 years of the government of the US officially recognizing the citizenship status of the majority of its residents. That is less than an average human lifetime. Of course, even after 1964 most people, who had up until then been considered second-class citizens, for the most part still had no practical legal recourse against unjust violence committed against them by the state.