277 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 3 Jan \ parent \ on: National Divorce aka Secession libertarian
Another angle to look at this is with states in the USA defying the feds. While I agree with you in general in practice states have exercised rights against the feds. They have done so on the war on drugs, marriage rights, and gun rights. If you understand the 10th amendment you can see that feds do not care about the constitution. But, states do push back. I suspect we will see more and more states pushing back on the feds before we see a real secessionist movement.
Honestly, the federal system with different states having their own laws, ones that differ is a much better model than a single state. Granted, any state with a monopoly on the use of force is evil, but the founders of the US had a good idea. In practice it failed. The constitution failed but it is a beautiful document. In my experience people just use it when it is convenient. It is pointless to use it in arguments. The average person just thinks X and isn't interested in hearing arguments against their preferences.
To me, the only solution is more decentralization and more freedom. Mind your own business and live and let live.
This is the major pressure release valve for our society. There's been a major restoration of "state's rights" in the areas you mentioned (and many more). As long as that trend is resilient against pushback from the national regime, there will at least be places to go that better match individual preferences.
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What few people seem to understand is that it goes both ways. There will be States that go toward your values but also others that move away. We have been so driven to be micromanagers that few seem to accept this. It boggles my mind that people seem to believe that their side can ever win over the other. Its stupid.
Thing is, most don't think. They just parrot.
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The nice thing is that as long as precedent keeps adding to state and local autonomy, nobody has to care what someone on the other side of the country thinks about how their state is run.
I wonder if people's totalitarian instincts will atrophy in an environment with less national decision making.