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I’m seeing things happen in America today that point to the end of the republic as envisioned by our founders.

Collectivists have assumed control of the government, education system, media, corporate boardrooms and even large denominations. As a result, collectivist ideologies are now being forced on everyone, and anyone who resists is “banished” from society as surely as those exiled from kingdoms in the past were for failing to swear fealty to the throne.

Our founders envisioned a collection of largely independent states held together by a core of common values and united under a f...