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I wonder how such an anemic federal govt could avoid becoming the client state of a major world power in the modern complex world where the stakes are so high,
by ryanmarsh 6y ago
I wonder how such an anemic federal govt could avoid becoming the client state of a major world power in the modern complex world where the stakes are so high, the opponents are playing the long game, and the oligarchs have no national loyalty.
- krapp 6y agoIt couldn't. obviously, if the US were actually founded as a libertarian minarchy and kept that way without a strong Federal government it would simply have dissolved into a fractious set of nations and eventually been consumed by European and Russian powers. Or New York. But most libertarians just want to be able to smoke weed, shoot guns and never pay taxes, and they don't think it through.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoIt's the other way around. If you bind their hands (e.g. constitutionally reduce the power of the central government and have the states and cities take over what it currently does) then oligarchs have to fight in every state and town instead of in one place for everyone. Then sometimes they lose, instead of the status quo where a federal government controlled by oligarchs has its hand in everything.