In business and law there is a term “in good faith.” It’s a translation from the Latin bona fide. Basically, it means that the desire to defraud is not present. One specific application of the concept has to do with a buyer who receives property from a seller who does not have a clear title to that property. The established precedent in all fifty states is that if a good faith buyer has purchased property that is afterward shown not to have been owned by the seller then the buyer keeps the property and the seller is legally responsible to the real owner for the illegal sale.
Maybe you see where I’m going with this. When our ancestors came to this country, we were sold a bill of goods. In fact, we were sold the Bill of Rights. And in exchange for these we fought in their wars and paid their taxes and helped build their mighty nation. But now we find out that those things weren’t for us. Freedom is only for the rich and well connected. The rest of us can have our speech restricted and our property is dependent on the vagaries of what the government decides it wants from us. If you want to leave the state because the taxes are outrageously high then that government will order that you surrender a huge chunk of the sale price as a penalty for trying to leave. And the most fundamental right for Americans, freedom of religion, is the most endangered. A judge will tell you that what you believe is bigoted hate. And we’re told that these changes in our rights are happening because the original Constitution was illegal. It shouldn’t have allowed us to say what we want to and think what we want to or prosper by our hard work. Those things are evil and racist and homophobic and misogynistic and transphobic and xenophobic and blah, blah, blah. So just forget all that freedom stuff and start getting with the program.
But guess what? We bought into the program in good faith. Just because the elites have decided that they couldn’t sell us what we bought doesn’t mean we have to give it back. In fact, we’re the good faith owners of the American Dream. Now from a practical point of view we have a problem because the elites have promised the contents of our dream to the next bunch of chumps that are coming along. Well, the way the law works we don’t have to give it back. And guess what? The ones who sold us the property are the ones who are liable for the other claims. So, if these fine, rich, ethically scrupulous, leaders of the community, the ruling elite of the greatest country on earth, want to give all these new illegal aliens all the comforts of home then they should hand over their land and money and privileges.
But of course, that’s not how they look at it. Chumps don’t get any consideration. They’re just a means to an end. They’re a revolving door of indentured servants to be manipulated and tossed aside as circumstances allow. They will always be able to justify to anyone listening including themselves why they are in the right and we deserve whatever abuse they think up.
The truth is if we want what we paid for we’ll have to fight to get it. That’s really how these things work. And if we’re not willing to do that then we had better leave or get used to being slaves. Those are the only three paths. Pick one.