General Discussion

About our "rolling out the red carpet" and your not understanding it... I feel you. But I've also learned a few things that Americans in general do not know.

Our understanding of this, "our country," was obscured from its beginnings by those who embarked on making the conquering of this land a corporate project, not a project for freedom, as the framers thought it should be, and wrote it to be.

The framers of U.S. "founding" documents were not themselves the founders, they were the framers. That obscured difference has by today made all the difference.

The funders were the founders.
One reason the framers warned against the power and influence of corporations is that they didn't quite know corporate power and could not explain it to a people whom they wanted to govern the new land and society "of, by, and for The People." The last warning was from Pres. Eisenhower upon leaving office, who warned Americans of the dangers of the "military industrial complex."

The corporate backstory of this country was always in the background of the "official" histories about country we loved. No one is taught corporate history when they study U.S. History. But corporate history is behind all colonized lands of the Americas. I've taught some of the literature of world cultures; besides that I've read a lot of history -- Indigenouse Peoples History of the US, African American History, Women's History, Latino History, etc. I've almost never come across a corporate history of the U.S.

The best history of corporate conquest of the land we've always thought of as "ours" is in this book, at least at the time of its publishing.
It shows the timeline of how the original funders, through intergenerational "corp"orations, came to demand the same legal standing as the organic humans who the U.S. Constitution was originally written for. (But which Hamilton sold out to the European banks, which later held the former wealth of kings who first chartered the corporate foundings of Jamestown, Salem, and other major east coast colonial capitals.)

We might be confused today. But the history is there to read. So far as of today, humans are down but not out. But for us humans to regain rule of law freedoms framed by the founders, we will have to learn more about the emerging "oligarch/tech/corporate complex" enemy better than we have until now.

Teh country we think we've loved is more like the people and good governments in it, but they definitely have not been the country that had been established by banks and corporations all along. Americans cannot be faulted for not knowing what has been hidden, but now that a clearer, more honest history exists, and the truth is out, we can't just walk away, either. hth