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Originally Posted by pai mei
joshbaumgartner all the politicians in my country are pro EU, and almost all the people too, I am a minority with my view.
What I would like to see in the world is total descentralization, every village,and every street in a country doing what they want, and have their own elected "governemnt" made from people in the area - very easy to know them and reach them, just the same constitution and fundamental rights for all
I am against rules coming from 2000 kilometres and from people I never known.
States are good for ensuring people some basic rights, and that is all, no centralised government needed
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On the contrary. Here I sit on a US government installation in Afghanistan where, though there is a central government, most people do not abide by it. Each region is 'managed' loosely by clans and families. Each town is looked over by the local elders. Due to this absolute lack of central influence, there is virtually no infrastructure. The police that have been installed, more or less, by the US forces acts only vaguely as peacekeepers, as there aren't really any local 'laws' to uphold. Since taxes are not collected at really any level, the government has difficulty funding projects to provide modern needs, such as an electrical grid or clean water distribution. Again, since the government lacks funds, there is little draw for businesses to come to Afghanistan, keeping the economy impoverished.
I'm not sure I see a society without centralized government really prevailing in modern times. It's just not human nature to work together on a grand enough scale without someone overseeing it.