The diagnosis is in ...

... and more people are morphing from concerned citizens to outraged rebels.

The word is out -- it's totally meaningless to back Candidate X when you know we'll get the same insane, neo-imperialist policies if Candidate Y or Z wins. As we've been arguing for some time, American political and economic power is so centralized in DC the people are increasingly unable to act freely and intelligently. The result is systemic breakdown.

Like a burned-out drug addict, DC is desperately trying to feel good again the only way it knows how, by usurping more political power through centralization, and waging more wars. But it's not working anymore. It can't. The instruments of reform and rebirth, the once-sovereign state governments, are hopelessly tied up by DC's never-ending supply of red tape. DC is so top-heavy, so other-worldly in its outlook, and so committed to forcible intervention, it cannot respond any other way.

Here are two new voices joining ours in calling our fellow citizens to join us on the only path that can restore prosperity and liberty, a path League of the South members have travelled since 1994.

First, here's Karen Kwiatkowski, the former Lt. Colonel who blew the whistle on the Neocon clique in the Pentagon. In this article, she warns that the cycle of fearmongering, invasion, and domestic surveillance will not be broken until the people take matters into their own hands:

It is time for a revolution, not dissimilar from that whereby Englishmen living in America asserted their own self-rule. Asserting self-rule – this is not unlike the recent Ron Paul campaign within the GOP establishment. And the word "revolution" has certainly been popularized by the Ron Paul campaign, which broke new ground and tapped into a strain of independence that has been percolating in this country for a long time. ... I hope that the revolution will be peaceful, but I suspect that to win this war against our own warmongering state, we need to, at a very minimum, strengthen the obstinacy of our passive resistance, our civil disobedience.

And here's left-libertarian Jacob Hornberger putting it a little more bluntly -- shouting his warning with the inner fire of Thomas Paine:

The time has come for the American people to do what Americans in 1787 were doing: reflecting upon the principles of liberty and limited government on which this nation should be based. The time has come to end the U.S. government’s role as the world’s policeman, intervener, interloper, aggressor, welfare provider, and sole remaining empire. The time has come for the American people to restore the principles of liberty and limited government that our ancestors bequeathed to us.

Despite the disappointments and setbacks, we've trudged along, certain of the rightness of our Cause. Now the word is spreading. We are no longer alone.