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[–] InClownWorldSellPnut 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
Yeah but in a modern industrialized world outside forces can exert so much influence and pressure that the power vacuum will be filled anyway.
American ideals cannot exist without strong cultural and economic protectionism (already a bit of a contradiction with libertarian economics/enlightenment ideals) which requires centralization and centralization is antithetical to Americanism. I learned the hard way that if you don't fill your kids heads with ideological/religious pulp, they will happily have them filled by the first opinionated person to come along and do so. If the feds didn't exert control China or Russia or Germany or the international jewery would... hell they do anyway.
America cannot co-exist with communist powers, the cold war forced us to centralize or be destroyed, this eroded the right to privacy, corrupted our institutions and buried all but the last vestiges of the republic. The increasingly Chinese driven culture and information war will erode personal freedom and liberty. The future is a boot, you must march, the only choice is to step forward with the left boot or the right, to become communist or become national socialist.
[–] Carpools 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If we compromise, they win. What definitely can't do is more of what they want us to do, which is abandon our American, libertarian, decentralized, principles.
I know statists bring up "power vacuum" often, but there are places that don't have forensic cameras every 10' and document every step of every individual, and there are places that do. There are states with a huge amount of representatives with little influence, and they're the freest in the nation.
If we were a confederacy, and had a legitimate government by the consent of the governed, and each state met each year to decide whether or not they'd remain in the confederacy or not, "our" federal government wouldn't be available to be used to destroy and enslave the world.
[–] InClownWorldSellPnut 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I'm more of a pessimist. My problem isn't with American ideals, it's with those who don't hold them. Big stick, super power tactics will only work for so long, nuclear weapons made real war impossible/MAD so you can't just invade nation that fucks with you.
It's not that I don't want an ancap utopia, it's that increasingly I think it can't exist and if it could exist it's got to be born out of some horrifically totalitarian and militaristic super empire. Which is like giving yourself aids in the hope that it cures your cancer.
It worked out for what ~100 years give or take but the entire thing was a slow march back to centralization and outside forces almost crushed the American experiment so many times, relative isolation was the only thing keeping us from being dragged into European problems and ever since we started fucking around over there we have been hopelessly entangled with the rest of the world's shit.