America Is Now A Zombie State

Fewer freedoms maybe depending upon who you were and where you ranked in society. Definitely not for most people. Not to mention laws like the Alien and Sedition Acts.

 

I've said this before and didn't come up with it, but I think a fair test for "freedom" is imagining that we are going to be re-born in America but we must select the era. The condition is that we don't know what race, social status, ethnicity, gender, or orientation we might be born into. Hard for me to imagine anybody would really roll the dice and go back very far. But sure, if one could be guaranteed to be part of the aristocracy or ruling class, I'm sure a lot of people would take that.

 

I don’t think I can agree with this as diffuse power spread among many citizens seems to be the opposite of the definition of totalitarianism: “a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state."

I also still wonder, if Madison’s checks and balances are simply totalitarianism, what system would you say is superior?

 

I'm not sure what that means practically though, especially the word "underwrite." That is starting to sound more like sovereign citizen language than monarchist!

If you love God and believe that God wants us to love our neighbors, then presumably God expects us to care at least somewhat about how we are governing ourselves and treating each other while we're on this Earth. Of course, I think that can come in various forms and systems. If God wanted to dictate a specific system, the Bible could have made that very clear. I think "render unto Caesar" isn't that helpful but it at least reflects that the church and the government are distinct or at least can be distinct.

 

There are various subgroups, but lots of Sov Cits say they're beholden to God's laws.

 

This is the part where he comes in with how monarchy means only one person with absolute power over every individual is somehow better and less tyrannical than large numbers of people with very little individual power over anything or anyone.

 

Do you think one unaccountable person is a better judge of morality than a whole bunch of people who are accountable to each other? Perhaps to the anti-social such as yourself, but you are never going to be that unaccountable person no matter how much you imagine yourself to be or wish to identify with them.

 

I don't think you understand the concept of monarchy then or democracy for that matter

 

In a way, God can be viewed as the celestial monarch/dictator, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that some who find that comforting might also be comforted by the potential for relative order resulting from Earthly power being held by one person or as few persons as possible. Hitchens articulated better than I could why that tends to give me the creeps.

 

Yeah, I guess if you are a serf all you have to worry about is growing crops, keeping warm in winter and hoping your sons dont get conscripted as archers to get hacked down by knights. We see a lot of peasant mentality today, dont question anything, the cops are there to protect you, rich people mean well, etc.