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RE: An Experiment in Anarchism

in Anarchism5 years ago (edited)

But what happens when there are power vacuums, historically speaking? Other tyrannies come in to fill in those gaps, especially in the Middle East. That should not happen but it does happen. I like anarchy but we do not have anarchy or we don't have certain types of anarchy. Destabilization messes things up. Globalists divide and conquer. Hypothetically, self-government is better like you said. But the world is too dangerous for that. Therefore, I suggest the balancing of the four branches of governments, which is what the United States is founded on, with an emphasis on the tenth amendment which too many people do not talk at all or enough about.

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What is a "power vacuum," and how does the historical predation of governments prove anything? How have attempts to balance government and restrain it worked out this far?

What exactly do you want to do? You should be as practical as possible. You have goals and objectives. But how do you get there? How do you get the ball rolling?

Good questions. How does participation in politics get the ball rolling, and what goals or objectives can be achieved by joining that zero-sum game of false choices?

You said,

I push to make government more local and smaller too

Is this really a practical objective or goal? How do you get there? How do you get the ball rolling? And how will this achieve greater liberty? My experience with local government is hardly inspiring. They are vindictive, petty, and able to make their predations personal.

America has been there. America was founded on principles of self-government. That is the value behind the tenth amendment.

Whiskey Rebellion. Shay's Rebellion. Alien and Sedition acts. The government has been trampling liberty since before the ink was dry on the Bill of Rights, and the 9th and 10th amendment have never been deemed worthy of consideration as any sort of restraint on power. The Constitutional experiment failed long ago. Have you not read Lysander Spooner's No Treason or Letter to Grover Cleveland?

Did the constitutional fail or was government infiltrated?

What if it is neither, and the Constitution is functioning exactly as it was always intended to function by the political class? Or what if it is a meaningless instrument with no authority whatsoever despite our national mythology?

I am not a signatory. Neither are you. The people who signed it are all long dead. None of them represented either of us in any way. Are we party to it?

But it is not. Did you not see what happened in 1871 and 1913 and especially 1933? People should vote and protest and call their representatives and go to town halls and protest and make videos and write articles and send mail to Trump and educate people and do all they can to help.