Washington's Message to Americans: 'We Own You'

"It has been a while since the antique philosophy of the absolute divine right of kings and/or the State has been posited as a positive good.  It's been a long time since Thomas Hobbes' argument that an absolute sovereign state could cure the innate tendency toward individualistic selfishness of human beings has been put forth.

While Louis XIV may have loved the idea, certainly the arguments for a sovereign state and ruler have had no place in America, land of the free and home of the brave.

Until now.

For in the current administration's words and actions, we are seeing a trend that portends the complete inversion of the relationship of the American government and the individual citizen as outlined by its foundational documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.  We are being told that the individual owes his existence to the State instead of the State owing its existence to the people."     [American Thinker]