Free Government

Democracy In Your Hands.

I agree with symetrist. We need a central body to uphold basic human rights across the board for every member. I would just like to add that as members though we have to become more involved and take more responsibility of that central body, otherwise, it stops being a reflection of our ideals.

I do think more power should be granted to smaller communities, but there should be a central governing body of some sort to ensure that basic human rights are upheld and that conflicts between 2 communities can be resolved without war.

This question seems to suppose that federal authority is uniformly oppressive.

However, as a citizen of a heavily authoritarian state, I have a different point of view. The overweening power of Utah’s government has, throughout its history, been challenged, ameliorated and kept in check by the federal authorities.

If it weren’t for the feds, I would be living in a totalitarian theocracy.

I’m not a fan of heavy-handed government or corporate authority. But, in our case, the U.S. has served as an equalizing force, and has moderated our state’s most extreme tendencies.

Don’t discount the unifying power of federalism.

Responding to John- the reason I created this topic is that I, as common-joe-primate :), feel no real connection to my central government which is truly a farce to call it ‘representative’ (part of the reason we are here, right? direct democracy should play some role) AND I feel that the US would be better off with more choices of types of government accessible from state to state (assuming open borders).

I choose not to live in fear and paranoia, so I simply do not need our federal government. Do you?

Finally, the cons (eg., costs and risks) simply outweigh the pros of the current arrangement to me. You?

Individual communities should have more control over their governance than a disconnected political body in Washington D.C., but I see no reason why the United States should dissolve simply to empower our local government.

Breaking up the military into 50 different countries’ military would be reason enough not to support this. There are advantages to having one large state.

I’m interested in what the author of the poll was thinking of when he stated that government does not scale well as maybe I’d be more likely to agree.

I think certainly that there should be more control at the state level and local level, but that there should still be a governing or networking body connecting them, like the EU in Europe.