First off, we must fend off the Enclave’s own arguments. First, they argue that they are the legitimate government from the pre-nuclear era. As if anything before that watershed matters! To call upon the spectre of a world that reduced itself to rubble is to already admit defeat. A world, we might add, that destroyed itself because of their mistakes. Mistakes that they in their cowardice ran from, abandoning hundreds of millions to die! This abandonment itself destroys any claim they make to legitimacy.
It is true that the Enclave’s leadership – the “pure humans” who oppress those living under them – are the descendants of pre-War political, military and business leaders. And it is also true that one of those leaders was the last President of the United States. But we are dealing with elites here, not the main citizenry. America was never a monarchy, and they owe us no debt of allegiance because of who their fathers were.
They call us rebels and secessionists because California fought off their attempts to exterminate and enslave us. How can we have rebelled against those we never swore loyalty to, or seceded from a country we were never part of? Their expansion into the Caribbean islands also proves the lie that they simply seek to restore order in old American territory.
Pre-War America is dead. The Enclave is its walking corpse, driven by the desire of its old elites to retain power over us. And it is dead because it was fundamentally flawed from the start – flaws corrected in our own Republic, having learned from the mistakes of its “founding fathers”.