Quote:I don't know, man. That seems to me to be either a cop out, or a defeatist attitude--maybe both.


It's obvious that when you form an organization, there will be an inclination towards corruption. We all know the saying, "power corrupts..."


So to just throw ones hands in the air and say, well we need to castrate the federal government, seems like giving up. You realize killing the federal government that is run via a democratic republic would create power vacuum. That vacuum would be filled by what?


I believe you would say, by businesses... Businesses are not run democratically...


You may not like our federal system, but if you like our democratic republic, you don't try to destroy it from within, you try to fix it's weaknesses. The weakness I see is that the oligarchs are running the show and creating policies that benefit only a small group at the detriment of the rest of us yahoos.

I haven't advocated ending the federal government just reducing it's power. A majority of what the federal government does can and should be done at the state level for starters. At the state level it's much more controllable for example you and I can reasonable keep tabs on Tallahassee how often can we go to Washington? Secondly yes many things government does can be done by the private sector.


It's not a statement of defeat to acknowledge power as big as the fed is certain to be corrupt it's acknowledging human flaws.


I'm just advocating moving the constitutional republic back towards its original role.

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