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HylianSwordsman on 22 June 2018
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VAMatt said:

I think the US government should be dissolved, yes.  

As for retreating from the world stage.... No, I don't think we should do that.  I think we (the USA, if it must exist) should set a good example for the rest of the world by staying out their business.   We should eliminate all restrictions on the movements of goods, money, and people, whether or not any other countries follow suit.  We'd be better off for it, and many other would soon follow, once they see the economic prosperity that comes from freedom.  

You mention China and their 1984-ish state.  You're right.  They're terrible.  Ironically though, the US, along with the UN, are the leaders in the War is Peace charade.  We literally go to the UN, ask them, and other countries, to wage war in the name of peace. And they almost always agree to do so! We, along with most of the western world (and many other countries) have been doing this constantly since about the end of WWII.  Interestingly, it coincides pretty closely with the start of the UN.  

Oh yeah, you mention "the free world".  Where exactly is this free world that you're talking about?  

Well certainly the freeness I speak of is relative, but you apparently admit you prefer the states to China. So even you see the difference, and it's that difference I'm talking about. Countries with functional democracies are freer than dictatorships, it's not that hard to grasp. Tell me though, do you have a plan to get rid of all those dictators? I'd rather we ask countries to help us to defeat dictators than let them continue to solidify their grip on power while dissolving our own. Your plan is suicidal. Sure, a world where power is dissolved as much as possible would be a more fair one than the one we live in, but to get to that world, we have to start with the one we're in, and your path would have us give up our collective power in the name of "freedom". I maintain that you're horrifically naive if you think that 50 unallied states wouldn't get invaded, and committing the entire continent worth of states to each other's common defense in the form of a federal military is the best way to prevent said 50 states from being invaded piecewise until we all fall to foreign tyrants. But having a federal military without a federal civilian government is asking for a military dictatorship.

Also, if you're in favor of dissolving the federal government, why not the states themselves? I mean the states are in turn a super-government over the towns and cities within them. How small does the government have to be before it's small enough? Why have a government at all in that case? I mean are you truly an anarchist as I suspected? You talk kind of like a libertarian, but an extremist one that would leave a pointless government that might as well be anarchy.