A lot of people come away hearing about the ancient Greek ideals about what government is, democracy, autocracy, etc... and they think they know something about how things work.
Or maybe they read the US Constitution and know about the Supreme Court or something like that and they say "Oh! I know all about the American system!"
Nothing could be further from the truth.
This is how government works, at least according to Anglo-Saxons. And make no mistake -- America IS an Anglo-Saxon nation. We are the epitome of what Anglo-Saxons are. German, French, Italians might as well be martians because we don't understand you and you don't understand us.
At the heart of the Anglo-Saxon system is this one concept that supercedes all: MAN IS SOVEREIGN. What this means is that there are no masters and slaves. Or rather, if there are slaves, it is because the slaves CHOOSE to be slaves, and the masters CHOOSE to be masters.
Anglo-Saxons don't want slaves. And we don't want to be masters. People who approach us asking to become our slaves are turned away, and anyone who presents himself as a slave is not a member of our tribe. We just don't think that way.
Anglo-Saxons are expected to provide for themselves and their family. If the family can't provide for themselves, and they die, we look on that as natural and just and merciful. We hear about men who move to Alaska, try to survive, and we find their cabin collapsed and their bones scattered by wolves and we think "What a hero!" We do not see death as a problem. We don't fear it. We welcome it as the natural result of life. Everyone will die.
The WORST way for an Anglo-Saxon to die is as a burden on others. I'll be a little personal here: My dad who raised his sons did not want to be a burden. When he came to that part of his life where he needed us to survive, he chose to move far enough away from us that we couldn't visit him every day, but close enough that we could see him once a week. He CHOSE to die alone without burdening us. I think he even requested that there be no funeral, but we said he doesn't get to decide that and we held one anyway. My grandpa did something similar, except he got dementia and somehow ended up in a nursing home, probably against his will.
With that out of the way, how do Anglo-Saxons self-organize? We come together when there is a need, and we lend freely of our assistance to our tribe. We choose someone to be the leader, usually the loudest or most liked person. Leadership, like being a master of slaves, is a burden no one wants, but we can compel each other to take it on if the need arises with one simple phrase: "If you don't do it, then who will?" Natural leaders realize that they have the gift of leadership and rather than let someone else take it and screw things up, they will step forward naturally when it is most needed. And when the disaster or crisis is solved, the leader disappears. Sometimes we tell ourselves that we have paid whatever debt to our brethren so they cannot ask us to be a leader again.
Government is a foreign concept to Anglo-Saxons, or rather, we wonder why we need one. We literally sit around dinner tables telling each other about how useless and inefficient government is, and how life would be so much better without government. We've been doing this constantly for the past thousand and so years. It doesn't matter what form the government is or who is in charge, we hate it.
The only reason why we have government is so that we don't have OTHER governments. Meaning, we put a king over ourselves so that someone ELSE won't be a king. Even better if that king is a tyrant who reminds us constantly why we don't like kings, but even better if that king is the worst possible type of king against other kings. We LOVED watching our kings lead us into endless battles against the French and the Germans, because that meant that the French and the Germans would never want to help our king! POLITICAL DISUNITY is the order of the day.
We have an innate fear of people like Hitler not because Hitler is bad, but because he is EFFICIENT and ORGANIZED and POPULAR. That is the worst sort of government to us! If people can expect good things from the government, they might start RELYING on government, and that would be a disaster! Trump is our guy because Trump is all about dismantling the government and making the different factions hate each other even more.
OK, now on to the nuts and bolts of the US system of government.
Government is evil. Period. We accept this fact. We embrace this fact.
Government attracts psychopaths. The very people you DON'T want in government end up in government. You can't stop that.
The TRUE force of government is the people, in the form of the militia. If you don't know what the militia is, look in a mirror. When you take up arms, you are militia. When you get your friends to help you -- well, now you have an army. The government lives in perpetual fear that the people of the US will start shooting the government employees. There is nothing they can do to stop that and they know it. The smart ones wake up every morning thanking God that they weren't murdered in their sleep by their constituents.
When things get truly bad, the militia will step forward and take control. That means guys like you and me will just shoot bad guys and be done with it.
In order to "restore" order, we are going to designate officers, people in our militia who represent us and who can give us orders. They'll tell us who to shoot or not to shoot if we get confused. They can also tell us when it's ok to go home or when we need to come back to battle.
The officers, thus, are a form of autocracy, and have tremendous power -- as long as "the people" support them. They can literally do anything that we tolerate.
The next level of government is the Continental Congress, AKA Parliament. This is simply a group of people we elected to represent us. The continental congress has infinite power to do whatever they want -- again, as long as the officers and people permit it.
The next level, the final level, is the constitution. Or rather, a government not composed of people but of laws and traditions. See, you can kill people but you can't kill laws or traditions as easily. The constitution lays out how the government is formed, who gets to wear which hat, and how long we will tolerate them abusing their powers.
This is the true order of American government.
The fact that we are not all carrying rifles and shooting random people, or that we're not taking orders from locally designated officers, or that we're not trusting a small group of elected people to make all the decisions means that life is pretty good.
And yes, life is pretty good. We've seen FAR worse in our history. The American Civil War, the American Revolution -- that was peanuts compared to what we've seen in our past. Think the plague. Think viking raiders. Think living under tyrannical kings who tried to murder their way to compliance and taxes. Life is pretty good right now.
Now, when it comes to people who say "The Supreme Court is the ultimate law!" we just laugh at them. Yes, they might think that, especially if they have a law degree or whatever. Maybe they "have to" say that so that they don't make people feel uncomfortable.
But we Anglo-Saxons know the truth.
We know that no piece of paper can stop a bullet.
Or maybe they read the US Constitution and know about the Supreme Court or something like that and they say "Oh! I know all about the American system!"
Nothing could be further from the truth.
This is how government works, at least according to Anglo-Saxons. And make no mistake -- America IS an Anglo-Saxon nation. We are the epitome of what Anglo-Saxons are. German, French, Italians might as well be martians because we don't understand you and you don't understand us.
At the heart of the Anglo-Saxon system is this one concept that supercedes all: MAN IS SOVEREIGN. What this means is that there are no masters and slaves. Or rather, if there are slaves, it is because the slaves CHOOSE to be slaves, and the masters CHOOSE to be masters.
Anglo-Saxons don't want slaves. And we don't want to be masters. People who approach us asking to become our slaves are turned away, and anyone who presents himself as a slave is not a member of our tribe. We just don't think that way.
Anglo-Saxons are expected to provide for themselves and their family. If the family can't provide for themselves, and they die, we look on that as natural and just and merciful. We hear about men who move to Alaska, try to survive, and we find their cabin collapsed and their bones scattered by wolves and we think "What a hero!" We do not see death as a problem. We don't fear it. We welcome it as the natural result of life. Everyone will die.
The WORST way for an Anglo-Saxon to die is as a burden on others. I'll be a little personal here: My dad who raised his sons did not want to be a burden. When he came to that part of his life where he needed us to survive, he chose to move far enough away from us that we couldn't visit him every day, but close enough that we could see him once a week. He CHOSE to die alone without burdening us. I think he even requested that there be no funeral, but we said he doesn't get to decide that and we held one anyway. My grandpa did something similar, except he got dementia and somehow ended up in a nursing home, probably against his will.
With that out of the way, how do Anglo-Saxons self-organize? We come together when there is a need, and we lend freely of our assistance to our tribe. We choose someone to be the leader, usually the loudest or most liked person. Leadership, like being a master of slaves, is a burden no one wants, but we can compel each other to take it on if the need arises with one simple phrase: "If you don't do it, then who will?" Natural leaders realize that they have the gift of leadership and rather than let someone else take it and screw things up, they will step forward naturally when it is most needed. And when the disaster or crisis is solved, the leader disappears. Sometimes we tell ourselves that we have paid whatever debt to our brethren so they cannot ask us to be a leader again.
Government is a foreign concept to Anglo-Saxons, or rather, we wonder why we need one. We literally sit around dinner tables telling each other about how useless and inefficient government is, and how life would be so much better without government. We've been doing this constantly for the past thousand and so years. It doesn't matter what form the government is or who is in charge, we hate it.
The only reason why we have government is so that we don't have OTHER governments. Meaning, we put a king over ourselves so that someone ELSE won't be a king. Even better if that king is a tyrant who reminds us constantly why we don't like kings, but even better if that king is the worst possible type of king against other kings. We LOVED watching our kings lead us into endless battles against the French and the Germans, because that meant that the French and the Germans would never want to help our king! POLITICAL DISUNITY is the order of the day.
We have an innate fear of people like Hitler not because Hitler is bad, but because he is EFFICIENT and ORGANIZED and POPULAR. That is the worst sort of government to us! If people can expect good things from the government, they might start RELYING on government, and that would be a disaster! Trump is our guy because Trump is all about dismantling the government and making the different factions hate each other even more.
OK, now on to the nuts and bolts of the US system of government.
Government is evil. Period. We accept this fact. We embrace this fact.
Government attracts psychopaths. The very people you DON'T want in government end up in government. You can't stop that.
The TRUE force of government is the people, in the form of the militia. If you don't know what the militia is, look in a mirror. When you take up arms, you are militia. When you get your friends to help you -- well, now you have an army. The government lives in perpetual fear that the people of the US will start shooting the government employees. There is nothing they can do to stop that and they know it. The smart ones wake up every morning thanking God that they weren't murdered in their sleep by their constituents.
When things get truly bad, the militia will step forward and take control. That means guys like you and me will just shoot bad guys and be done with it.
In order to "restore" order, we are going to designate officers, people in our militia who represent us and who can give us orders. They'll tell us who to shoot or not to shoot if we get confused. They can also tell us when it's ok to go home or when we need to come back to battle.
The officers, thus, are a form of autocracy, and have tremendous power -- as long as "the people" support them. They can literally do anything that we tolerate.
The next level of government is the Continental Congress, AKA Parliament. This is simply a group of people we elected to represent us. The continental congress has infinite power to do whatever they want -- again, as long as the officers and people permit it.
The next level, the final level, is the constitution. Or rather, a government not composed of people but of laws and traditions. See, you can kill people but you can't kill laws or traditions as easily. The constitution lays out how the government is formed, who gets to wear which hat, and how long we will tolerate them abusing their powers.
This is the true order of American government.
The fact that we are not all carrying rifles and shooting random people, or that we're not taking orders from locally designated officers, or that we're not trusting a small group of elected people to make all the decisions means that life is pretty good.
And yes, life is pretty good. We've seen FAR worse in our history. The American Civil War, the American Revolution -- that was peanuts compared to what we've seen in our past. Think the plague. Think viking raiders. Think living under tyrannical kings who tried to murder their way to compliance and taxes. Life is pretty good right now.
Now, when it comes to people who say "The Supreme Court is the ultimate law!" we just laugh at them. Yes, they might think that, especially if they have a law degree or whatever. Maybe they "have to" say that so that they don't make people feel uncomfortable.
But we Anglo-Saxons know the truth.
We know that no piece of paper can stop a bullet.
There is no more peaceful a people than Anglo-Saxons in a time of peace.
There is no more savage and destructive force as Anglo-Saxons at war. History bears this out. How many times have the Germans or French had our backs against a wall, saying "Surely any reasonable person would surrender!" But what do the Anglo-Saxons do? Surrender? No, we find an even more brutal and barbarous way to wage war, until our enemies beg us to stop.
Literally, there is a part of our brain that is dedicated to coming up with new ways to exterminate mankind. We get a certain child-like joy and happiness thinking that with "one simple trick" we can kill millions of men, women, children, babies, and everything else.
Flip that switch -- and we actually enjoy bloodshed and war, so much so that we forget what life was like before that switch was flipped.
But flip it back again, and we're like hobbits in the Shire.