The Declaration of Independence set forth the colonists' complaints, chief among them the English crown's disregard for the colonists' traditional rights, the disregard for the consent of the governed, and, more broadly, a complaint that the government had devolved into rule by an alien and foreign people, who lacked the habits, opinions, and struggles of the nascent American people.
Size alone does not thwart the principles of American government.
While on paper we are independent and possess a limited government controlled by the Constitution, the federal government today is quite literally out of control.
This surprising result was a collective vote of no confidence by the American people in both the federal government and the broad ruling class consensus that emerged after the Cold War.
Arguably, the distance between ordinary people and the Washington D.C. government sector is more profound today than that of the American colonists from the English in 1776.
Our right to self-government is in real jeopardy not from foreign foes-who are deterred by a combination of nuclear weapons and the natural obstacles of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans-but by an entrenched managerial ruling class, a class insulated from elections, immune from criticism due to widespread censorship, and generally unburdened by the consequences of the policies they impose on the rest of the country.
Unless Americans come to recognize their de facto occupation by the administrative state and wrest control of their government from this hostile and alien managerial class, the American people will continue to lack freedom and independence in all the ways that matter.
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