Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
Just AnotherPerson (06-12-2018)
family, work and community ties whereby natural tendencies towards bullying, violence, oppression would be constrained.
Bullying, oppression and violence are natural. You can't control, much less eliminate them, without government. this a romantic view of libertarians that sounds good but can't work.
What did I not get ?
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
Yes, they are natural tendencies but so is cooperation.
Government is the legitimized use of force. As such, how does the government eliminate violence?
Let's not I am not against government but the government, the State. The main gist of the Enlightenment was individualism, individual self-government, self-constraint. Except it's not just individual but the individual in society, thus the existing social order of customs, traditions, institutions, those associated with place throguh time, not those artifically invented.
Again, people like the idea of a government, just not the reality.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
They are heavily concentrated around the Great Lakes, larger rivers and the coastal areas. Not coincidentally the largest population centers also happen to be concentrated around all of the above. Hydroelectric plants are rather dependant on large bodies of water as are nuclear plants. Even the majority of coal plants are concentrated in the north and eastern seaboard. Middle America has more natural gas and oil.
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
That could possibly work but only after a major chunk of the population are dead.
You mistake middle America as a region. I use them as a group. The power line are easy to bring down. The whole point is that cities with their liberal rule can't take a shutdown. Without electric you have no computers and no banking. You can't pay for imports that you couldn't unload anyway.
I said what I did as a simple reason the left couldn't win a civil war. Don't be so serious about it. It won't happen.
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
I'll be honest and admit my views are changing. There must be something between the big centralized government most modern states have and no government at all. At least something where power devolves to the lowest local community possible so communities can mostly decide how to govern themselves, some top-down republics, some bottom-up demoracies, some monarchies, some anarchies. The liberty to experiment would likely lead, some dying off, some adopting what others do successfully, to better forms of government. And no doubt communities would have to form associations and alliances to protect their rights.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler