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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
if that is so, then that is the most serious reason to leave the U.N. a world-wide democracy would be a disastrous development. I would love to see every country in the world a democracy, but not have each nation be a "state" under a larger U.N. umbrella.
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Why have a Federal gov't, then? The Fed provides two benefits: 1- It protects the entire country from other countries and 2- It stabilizes the individual States so that they don't start attacking each other.
The U.N. provides the second benefit - promotion of stability within each country so that they limit their attacks against each other.
If there's no value in a world-wide democratic body, there's little value in a Federal-level democratic body. Even the Fed protection from other countries could be addressed by a multi-state collaboration which does not include a Federal body.