I'm glad you asked...maybe @
Ender will take a look at this as well, since he likes to poke fun at my William Wallace avatar as well.
I don't know why though. Let's look briefly at William Wallace...what did he fight for? Cheap French goods? Hordes of Irish to work for potatoes to cut the grass at his castle?
No, he fought for a nation of his own, to overthrow foreign invaders in defense of his home and family.
He fought for a nation of Scots, for Scottish posterity, in a society run by Scots.
What is so out of line with Anti Federalism?
å
They believed the Constitution needed a Bill of Rights.
They believed the Constitution created a presidency so powerful that it would become a monarchy.
They believed the Constitution did too little with the courts and would create an out-of-control judiciary.
They believed that the national government would be too far away from the people and thus unresponsive to the needs of localities.
They believed the Constitution would abrogate, at least in part, the power of the states.
This government has done every one of those things, and failed in many other regards, just like the Anti Feds predicted, not the least of which, prevent and repel invasion, which the AoC at least was very clear on
THAT point.
The Anti Feds were not opposed to state governments, they were opposed to an overpowering central government.
But even the greatest Anti Fed of them all, Patrick Henry, saw the power in unity when opposed to tyrants:
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!”
― Patrick Henry
He fought for the same reason William Wallace fought, for the same reason I fight, for freedom and for a place, a nation of my own, and my posterity.
So I don't see why my "handle" or avatar should be surprising.