You've hit the nail squarely in your comment. The US is hideously broken. Notice I said "a nation state that adheres to the US constitution". I am not unaware o

You've hit the nail squarely in your comment. The US is hideously broken. Notice I said "a nation state that adheres to the US constitution". I am not unaware of the failures of the United States, its abuses of power, and the hideous humanity expressed by its elite class (pedophilia, child sacrifice, etc.). > _can_ a state be the bearer of insurance for these things? Yes, but it requires the governors of the state to be moral. The peoples of the US have completely failed in passing moral ideologies to their children and grand-children. This moral failure has led to every disintegration of orderly running in the bureaucracy of the US and its states. If the pieces (the people) are immoral, so is the machine. > And I'm not sure that anybody other than (some) white men have _ever_ had these things securely in their civic possession. We pretend the opportunity is still to be had. But taxes and inflation steal most of the commoner's earnings. Taxes and inflation see to it that wealth (not necessarily dollars) flows to the elite class. Regulations ensure no one can fight the loss of wealth.