I dont get the sense that the "dont tread on me" folk are interested in balanced or nuanced opions about what constitutes treading. It's modern resurgency seemed clearly stemmed in an anti-any-government tea-partyism, seems like a rejectionist Thatcheristic "there is no such thing as society" view. It's insulting, gross & incredibly hostile naivety to many to treat our union as bad, to practice deliberately against it.