We ignore what the State is and what the State does because we have been trained instead to wage war upon our loved ones, in order to save the world (for what, if not our loved ones?), by winning fake elections. The State has replaced God, as it does in any collapsing Regime proxy. If the State tells us Caligula’s horse was to be president, we would listen at full attention while Megyn Kelly tells us how a certain phrase in the Constitution allows for horses to be appointed in such a time as this. We would read think-pieces in intellectual internet magazines about what it means for gender relations that we elected a horse.

To the extent our deference to the State might preserve our nation and our heritage (as Statists claim it does when defending their servitude), they would be preserved in name only. Our worship of the State is, instead, an affront to our nation and our heritage and it is an ever-present danger to ourselves, our property, and our progeny. We have adopted the notion that one half of the state is less corrupt than the other and, since all power belongs to the State, the State is the only entity than can save us from the more corrupt half of itself. The State taught us this. Then it taught us that the half of the population we blame for all the problems blames our half, an unresolvable paradox that will have us warring over trivialities until our dying days. This framing is ridiculous on its face. It has poisoned our relationships with our families and friends, divided communities against themselves and, the people distracted, allowed the enemy element—that assumes the form of all identities—to dominate us completely. The government is no longer the agent of the people. The people have been conditioned to see themselves as subjects of the government.