Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Can Decentralization Save Humanity? - Why Smaller is Better in Politics" video.

  1. "A tyrants power derives from the citizenry"? Where does that nonsense come from? Tyranny is by it's nature a condition where the will of the people is not a consideration. I tried to make it all the way through this video because past videos produced by this channel have made sense. This one is chock-full-of BS. This idea that decentralized power has been the norm throughout history is a load of crap. History is dominated and defined by periods of empire, not small city states singing kumbha as they battled back the Hun's. Believe me, I'm no fan of large overreaching government but that has been the end result as long as people have organized themselves into groups. Initially it was done for protection, then people figured out they liked power and dominating others so that became the driving force. The narrator says he's not pushing a utopia here but that's exactly what he's peddling. And this assertion that small city states and tribes have some sort of natural tendency to of band together to fight off a larger power trying to intrude upon them is ridiculous. Ask the Gaul's how that worked out for them against Rome, or the tribes of Asia against the Mongols. Want a more modern example? Ask the Czechs how things went for them in 1938. Like I say, I would love nothing more than for the world to operate the way this guy says it did in his imaginary past and I agree Federalism is the best hope for liberty in the United States but the truth of the matter is we are headed in the opposite direction. The world is more interconnected than at any time throughout the history of civilizations and guess what, tyrants love to grab the levers of power when the foundation is already set up for them. If you think we are somehow immune to that because we are more enlightened, I've got a nice piece of real estate to sell you just south of me. It's buried under 10 feet of water but that shouldn't be a problem, you can always get your neighbor's to help man the pump. I hate where we are going and while the solution being offered here is very appealing, it is as realistic as terraforming Mars and starting over on that planet. Dark days are on the horizon, I wish it wasn't so, but that's the world of the way things are and we better wake up to that and the nature of our true enemy pretty quick or there won't be anything left to save.
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