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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
I know that, Sky. I've always argued against federalization of states for that reason.
The problem is that if you destroyed and rebuilt it, it would end up the same way. A federal power structure is like a universal equation; no matter what variables you plug in, it will always end up the same way. Centralization of power has only one possible outcome - power in the hands of those most inclined to wield it.
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That's why I am against unregulated economies as well, and leaving it to the market.
And what you say, is not only true for federations of states, or federal states, but one-body-states as well. Or governments of too big communal subunits within a national state.
What has led me in the past to saying that democratic principles only can avoid raising power monopoles of always the same class/elite/oligarchy and lobby rulerships, the smaller they are. They fail in this, the bigger they are.
In the end, whom the electorate votes for, is not so important. That it is given the information - instead of being manipulated and being excluded from information like it is today - and power to keep economy interest and politician's interest strictly separate, and that the single citizen can completely oversee all what happens within the communiy and realsis all conseqeunces of the one'S deeds onto all the others, and that priviliges for current rulers are not granted any decision-makers are no longer excluded from the conseqeunces of their decison so that they cannot differ between their own interest and the communal interest anymore - these things would be vital.
Ecologically, world population is too big. Politically, our states and communites are to big. They are ungovernable through democratic means by their mere size.
Much of what policies and diplomacy are about, is hiding and raising smoke screens so that the elctorate cannot see the realy deals. That'S why I support the Wikileaks idea in principle - because to me the trustworthiness of policy-making is about transparency, and free flow of information from and to everybody, everywhere. Only then decision-makers cannot form special deals anymore. Bribery and corruption can be tackled. Power abuse by elected people, and whole govenrments be avoided. Intel insiders point out that most of that business is about controlling the information available to own population. In other words: deception of the population'S own power elites' acting.
Transparency would render the whole diplomatic service useless. Because diplomacy is not about giving the other information, but hiding it from him.