So how many of you actually want the United States to breakdown, and how do you imagine it happening? - Kotaku In Action 2

So how many of you actually want the United States to breakdown, and how do you imagine it happening? (media.kotakuinaction2.win)

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– DogFacedPepeSoldier 7 points 3 years ago +8 / -1

I'm not sure republicanism can work at this level of complexity and naturally deteriorates into some form of oligarchy. The gains for corruption are just so high that any reasonable punishment for being caught can't possibly be a deterrent.

It's not even a Left/Right thing. I just don't think having nations this large and powerful are good for their own citizens.

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– xzibit_b 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Yeah, and there is a solution to that: federalism and subsidiarity.

Federalism: The majority of the power lies within the states. Federal government is mostly hands off on what the states do. The states act like loosely affiliated countries.

Subsidiarity: Within the states, the majority of power lies within the cities/towns/municipalities.

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– DogFacedPepeSoldier 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Yeah that's what we had but they managed to "progressively" errode it over time because Tocqueville was right.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money

And he was right because Adam's was right

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Since we are not longer moral or religious in the major population centers, those who still are have no choice but to either live under secular tyranny or separate from them entirely

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