The Russian Empire wasn't reformed into the USSR though; it was overthrown and replaced. Patriots of the empire, so to speak, fought against the revolution.
[T]hose from within [the US] must seek to take it back.
We've never had it. From the country's founding, it's been explicitly designed to prevent the ruling class' power from eroding.
James Madison wrote extensively on the subject in favor of our Senate system, including the following:
With every admissible subdivision of the Arable lands, a populousness not greater than that of England or France, will reduce the holders to a Minority. And whenever the Majority shall be without landed or other equivalent property and without the means or hope of acquiring it, what is to secure the rights of property against the danger from an equality & universality of suffrage.
The people deserve to be emboldened, but our democratic institutions are too much of a farce to be a means for that.
What nation of people? We're the embodiment of Patriarchal White Supremacist Capitalist Colonialism. That's what the US has been about since its founding, and if you don't like it then good. I don't either.
We can't pretend that America was once about democracy and acknowledge the fact that it wasn't. We can either pretend our best pieces of civic mythos are instead history, or we can reckon with the fact that we're all so far past the 'values' of our founders that we're going to have to forge a new identity.
The name doesn't necessarily have to change, but basically everything else about the US does.
Only white Americans give a shit about burning the American flag. Average POC don't give a fuck. There's a reason why patsocs are like 99% white with the token white-passing POC like Haz.
The Russian Empire wasn't reformed into the USSR though; it was overthrown and replaced. Patriots of the empire, so to speak, fought against the revolution.
We've never had it. From the country's founding, it's been explicitly designed to prevent the ruling class' power from eroding.
James Madison wrote extensively on the subject in favor of our Senate system, including the following:
The people deserve to be emboldened, but our democratic institutions are too much of a farce to be a means for that.
Okay fine. Let me know how tearing it all down with the support of the people goes.
Keep burning those American flags if it's unsalvageable.
I never said reformed. I'm saying the nation of people persists through the change.
What nation of people? We're the embodiment of Patriarchal White Supremacist Capitalist Colonialism. That's what the US has been about since its founding, and if you don't like it then good. I don't either.
We can't pretend that America was once about democracy and acknowledge the fact that it wasn't. We can either pretend our best pieces of civic mythos are instead history, or we can reckon with the fact that we're all so far past the 'values' of our founders that we're going to have to forge a new identity.
The name doesn't necessarily have to change, but basically everything else about the US does.
Only white Americans give a shit about burning the American flag. Average POC don't give a fuck. There's a reason why patsocs are like 99% white with the token white-passing POC like Haz.
"only 70% of the population"
Good luck with your popular movement :)