Being A Good Traitor

LET'S FACE IT. We Americans know all about how to be traitors. We're good at it, and always have been. After all, we started early, by necessity, or so we like to think. We were being treated so badly by the British that we had no choice, so we are taught. We never say much about the colonial American aristocratic land owning powerful elite's desire to assume actual ownership and control of the country; the replacement of one governing aristocrat, the traditional, "legal" one, and another one, an upstart. And in fact, all of Jefferson's complaints enumerated in the declaration of independence are perfectly valid, perfectly true. And yet, in many ways, British colonial rule of the American colonies was soft, gentle, beneficent, hands off, by comparison to how the British governed their own people. The ocean had its advantages. We Americans had to be talked into revolting, and nearly half couldn't be, called "loyalists" or "Tories", and ended up siding with the British, meaning that over one hundred thousand left the country, and went to places like Canada and the Caribbean. From the British point of view, the Americans were traitors. Objectively, they were. Traitors to their country. the same was true in the Civil War; the founders and citizens of the Confederate States of America were traitors. A second vicious revolutionary war started and waged by traitors. Its happened many times; groups of Americans, or individual Americans, turning against the United States. During the Civil war, at leas one country in every Confederate states refused to join the Confederacy; traitor's traitors. Every few years you hear about some country in some far western or southern state wanting to declare its independence from its state and the United States, adn form its own country. there is and always has been a strong independence movement in Texas, which of course was an independent country for ten years, 1835 to 1845, after being a colony of five different superpower empires for centuries. There have been African-american secession movements, justifiably,and of course many native-american nations exist within the United States, a technically independent but in reality controlled by the American government, a hodge podge nation rife with conflict, division, and separation. So maybe this time we will split up into a Republican America, and a Democratic America. Who are the traitors? All of us?