To understand the modern left-wing globalist, you must understand the historical landscape of Europe.

The insufferable, tyrannical nature of the European ruling class is the exact reason America exists today as the Land of the Free. - Bill Brindley

The British elites issued a tyrannical decree: 

• You cannot own land, and you must surrender your firearms.
• The early Americans offered a definitive, glorious response: Drop dead.

That foundational defiance is what the modern left desperately wants to erase. 

They despise the concept of individual sovereignty because an armed, property-owning citizen cannot be easily enslaved or manipulated...