Sarah Hoyt favors the long-term view
[AccordingToHoyt] ...Part of my reason to think the concept is insane is precisely the pickle we’re in. This is not how we were designed to be. Our civil war, like the Punic wars to Rome, sent us down a side-spur, in our case into a strong central government.
But there are two or perhaps three things that happen when a strong government rules over too large and diverse an area:
1- They will lose accountability to the people, and actively do things to stop alarms going off that tell them they’re going SERIOUSLY wrong. I don’t think I need to explain that to anyone here, right? Including the fact that our government is now MOSTLY run by a vast and unaccountable army of bureaucrats? ...
2- They will become mostly interested in impressing/responding to those people they see every day, from colleagues to neighbors. What this means is it ends up being "dictatorship by whatever region the government is located in." Humans are humans, rule comes with an assumption of superiority. "We are much better than them," type of thing. And if it becomes obvious that other people in other regions don’t agree with you, you think of them as rubes, ignorant, deplorable.
3- They will fall prey to absolutely insane theories and fads, because they live in a bubble who all approve of it.
...But mostly, mostly, the biggest problem is that the first and foremost human tendency when acquiring enough power ‐ and any government over a very large area has enough power ‐ is to disable the alarm system and make sure there’s no negative report on whatever we choose to do, ever. Everything else comes from that.
...(One of the reasons to vote Republican, even in a situation where Republicans and Democrats field equally awful candidates is that our press being mostly corrupt, convinced leftists, they will report every time a Republican looks at someone funny, but they will not, under any circumstances, report even major fraud and corruption from Democrats. All else being equal, the Republicans are less able to disable THAT alarm system.
...As is, we have it relatively easy. If you start with a government over that large an area, but created on very different principles and with no checks or balances the result is the USSR... or China. We have so far ‐ knocks on head ‐ and barring a president Sanders avoided the millions of mass graves.
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