Strictly speaking. It’s not necessary for the People to prosecute the Swamp. It is however necessary for the Republic. At least as we understand it. To survive.

This whole song and dance has been about leaving enough of a Federal Government behind to start earning back the faith and loyalty to National institutions of the people.

Anything else. You risk creating the conditions for the country to Balkanize. Part of the reason the Constitution was created. The Government of established under the Articles of Confederation. Lost the people’s faith and loyalty in short order. And was barely by the skin of its teeth able to stop the States from going to War with each other over territorial feuds. We needed something stronger to keep the country together.

The United States doesn’t have the storied history’s of Kings and Queens of Europe. No Millenia long shared history. Not even a shared universal national culture.

We’re stitched together from dozens of different cultures and peoples and speaking dozens of different languages. With Thousands of different ideas on how things should work.

Much of the National History we do have today is to one degree or another a carefully constructed and curated work. Originally started by the Founding Fathers. As much Myth and Fabrication as it is Truth. Glossing over our failures. Highlighting our triumphs and unity. Done quite deliberately to promote unity.

Somewhat ironically. The only thing keeping this country together is the Constitution and the National Institutions created by the Government which is supposed to be given Authority to Govern by the self same Document.

We’re as much an experiment in the limits of Humans to Unify and the capacity of the Enlightenment Values to function in the real world as we are a Nation State. One that’s in no small amount of Danger. Even with people controlling the situation behind the scenes.

Given Republics and Classical Liberal values are declining in popularity among the population, because the past century+ of corruption and incompetence has done little to help endear the concepts to the world’s population at large to any meaningful degree. That and at least from appearances sake the foremost example of those ideas when applied to the real world seems to be the source of a not insignificant amount of the worlds suffering.

The fact it’s a Tyrannical Oligarchy wearing a Republic as a skin suit is a finer point that maybe lost on the people who’ve been on the receiving end of its “Assistance”.

I thought treason would be prosecuted in a military court and the convicted would do time in gitmo. Am I wrong about that?