Have you thought about a strategy on how to transform an existing state or nation to a voluntary society? Could a political party or a politicians who promotes the decentralization of power, like secession from the union and direct democracy, be start to step by step achieve that goal, if over 50% of the people in that nation or state would agree with the moral principles of a voluntary society?
There is no transition or transformation from statist to voluntaryism. There is the collapse of the former. No "political party" is any step in the right direct. A nicer ruling class is still a ruling class, and people who are still focused on choosing political masters aren't even free inside their own heads.
I was talking about a political party with the goal to eliminate the ruling class in order to build a voluntary society, not one that is just a little bit nicer.
Yeah, I kind of diverge w/people like Larken when they say there is no point to attempting to use the state govts. to resist federal tyranny...or even running for federal office on a platform of dissolving the federal union (as I've heard Adam Kokesh plans to do in 2020).
How much better off would we be now had the South managed to secede? How much better will the UK be when they secede from the EU? Having one less layer of govt. to deal with is a plus imo...
Trying to legislatively eliminate the ruling class still implies that we need the RULERS to decide they shouldn't rule. And that will never happen.
Adam Kokesh will run for political office again, and I trust him that he would try to eliminate the ruling class step by step. He posted a part of his free book Freedom about localization a few days ago, titled How to Dismantle Government. It might be tough and one would need a good strategy, but I don't think that it can't be done. I also think that we should try everything imaginable to achieve a voluntary society.
https://steemit.com/freedom/@adamkokesh/how-to-dismantle-government
Sounds like a rational path to me. Its surprising to me how few people recognize the danger of centralized super-states, even after the last 100 years of bloody warfare between these kinds of nation-state empires.
I think many people already recognize the death and destruction caused by centralized power, but they don't see a reasonable way to take the power back.
Hmmm...most folks I talk to are aghast at the suggestion that we don't need a central govt...
Would these folks support voluntarism, if that would instantly end all wars of aggression currently fought by the US military regime, the unaccountable police state tyranny, the criminal (in)justice system, the criminal too big to fail robberies called quantitative easing which likely enslaves their children and possibly their children's children? Ask them if they enjoy paying taxes to fund all these immoral actions?
dwight, like 99% of the populace, no, these folks would NOT support voluntarism...
There's a lot work to do for the voluntarist community.
Statism is an irrational belief system...just like religion...its very hard to reason people out of beliefs they didn't reason themselves into.