Comment by verzali
1 day ago
No, next they'll be reviewing citizenships too in order to make sure you haven't said anything mean about Trump or Vance online. Oh sorry, to make sure you haven't said anything that goes against the fundamental values of the United States.
They better be careful, saying something true online is less work than the renunciation process to demand the freedoms everyone else is born with.
You must dig deeper into US history. Citizenship was revoked or frozen en masse at certain period for different races. Actually the “free” USA only happened after world war 2 and it was probably because the US was becoming the super power.
This current administration wants to end interventionism which means the old US (100% white/all Protestant) might be coming back. If you are not in that category you must start planning accordingly.
Seriously, would love to have not had to spent 3 years backfilling paperwork, and paying $2000+CAD (after lawyer fees) to renounce.
Ostracism was core of Athenian democracy, and yes it was politicized often.
No democracy for enemies of democracy.
It was reserved to highly ranked influential politicians, though. Also quite rare as far as we can tell.