As to whether it's "evil," this goes back to the legality of its formation. If it was formed by the conquest of sovereign free and democratic nations, then it's definitely evil. "
I find it funny how points are made based on assumptions that are pulled out of the air or by applying snippets of documents or statements. and then pilling on.
And I find it rather obtuse, how points are refuted via ad hominem attacks, rather than addressing the point itself-- or even doing any homework on the issue-- but just logging on and plugging away. ANYONE can contradict-- not everyone can debate.
This reminds me of my late brother-in-law
Case in point..... that's not welcome here.
Oh and by the way, I think evil as a concept as apposed with say corrupt, would entail the death, enslavement, or exile of peoples. Not just the corruption of power and responsibility (US Congress comes to mind).
Wow, talking about putting your foot in your mouth, you just did it-- as a frog would say-- knee-deep. Congress HAS been responsible for the death, enslavement and exile of peoples-- beginning with the Civil War.
You seem to want to excuse the evils of the US, that's all, rationalizing them-- the draft, the Civil War WWI, WWII, the Cold War, the Great Depression-- you've no doubt got your own rationalizations for all of these, how these were "different" from other dictatorships.
There's a psychological term for th is-- "psychotic denial."
The federal Gov IS and it is not going to go away even if there were a total revolution. It would remain cast anew with a new clique at the helm.
Ok, you clearly don't know much about US history; the Founders wanted to AVOID this by keeping the states SEPARATE, rather than simply forming a new empire. Only Hamilton wanted this, and even HE supported the right of state-secession as a means to prevent corruption.
The age of States as STATES is gone forever.
That's your opinion, based on nothing other than circular logic (i.e. "it's been that way up until now," regardless of changing causes).
In Europe countries are loosing their Sovereignty to the EU, I dare say that there will be other Unions formed over time from the remnants of the old Soviet Union, for economic and military necessity. These countries are disparate peoples and are consolidating their Identities. They are not done yet.
Again, more psychic-chat. That's really not the issue here.
If any of us want to improve the state of what IS I think we should flush the congress and put people in there who will do the job they are suppose to do, not put budgets on auto pilot to increase each year and make themselves eliete for life.
Yeah, that's worked SO well for the past 140 years-- NOT!
This notion of "just stop electing corrupt people" is naive, since the power is still there-- it's the CENTRALIZED STRUCTURE of the government that is the problem; likewise, such power ATTRACTS corrupt people to it, who get off having power over others, without accountability.
That's what you GET with an empire-- which is the form of government we have now-- i.e. many nations ruled by a single sovereign power.
This notion that "we just need the right people" is hopelessly ignorant, characterisitic of the "magical-thinking" that continues to pepetuate the myth of the "benevolent dictatorship."
This goes back even to ancient Israel, when the prophets warned the Israelites not to appoint a king-- but they persisted anyway, and the rest is history.
Looks like SOME have blind to the lessons of history-- and there are none so blind as those who will not see.
We have computers now, HELLO... we mortals can manage huge budgets and store information from one term to another. send them all home and get some statesmen in to run the ship of state and send the politicians out to get real jobs. IMHO
Technology isn't the solution to excess government-- and it never was: the free-market system didn't need computers to end the aristocracy from determining prices, but rather Smith's "Invisible Hand" concept of normalized market-equilibrium did fine-- even before it was defined as such.
The benefit of computers today, is the manner in which it circumvents the entrenched corporate-satist controlled media, wherein the "unholy alliance" between collaborating publishers and the corporate-run state, have lost their monopoly over mass-communications; now, BLOGGERS are able to communicate uncensored by network, press and radio executive-boards--- or FCC censorship etc.
This message is a case-in-point; you'd never hear or see this over any television, radio or newspaper.
It's no coincidence that this protest against US national authority over the states, coincides with the advent of the internet, and its mass-availability.
Only one state needs to challenge this authority, for the whole order to collapse; currently, the only thing supporting it is mass-ignorance regarding its illegitimacy. It would be like a police-officer giving orders in the US-- and everyone obeying-- and then suddenly finding out he's a Mountie.
Once a single state challenges this, the corporate-empire of the almighty United States is over-- and we can go back to being just UNITED STATES.
Or DIS-united, if they prefer. It's up to them-- that's what the word "sovereignty" means.
