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Not all governance is a dictatorship.
A representative democracy is generally not.
Many dictators wear trousers.
That does not mean all that wear trousers are dictators.
Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive
Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive
State election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.www.yahoo.com
That does not seem legal to me.
Voter lists are private information.
Anyone can hire, create, or authorize someone else to do that which they could have done themselves.
But how can you hire, create, or authorize someone else to do something which you could not legally do yourself?
I do not think you legally can, so I think whenever government does something you could not do yourself, it is an illegal dictatorship.
It's a new millennium.
The United States of America can no longer be protected, our sovereignty preserved, with club-wielding guards disbursed along our borders,
or even infantrymen holding fortified positions ...
That wouldn't protect from international trade scams, cyber-probes, electronic eavesdropping, forgery, many, many etc.
Bruce can't keep a MIRV ICBM in his back yard. How would his targeting protocol account for continental drift, etc.?
There are things as basic as printing $cash private citizens cannot / should not / must not do.
Thus we pay government to do such things for us.
Dictatorship is not all governance, only the category that is absolutely authoritarian, dictated by a single individual.
I disagree about "printing cash" because we essentially do the same whenever we write a check.
But I see your point when it comes to nukes.
It's similar, but it's not the same.
I got useful insight about this reading accounts about cash transactions around the time of the U.S. Civil War.
Such questions as:
- is it counterfeit?
BUT !
- Some historic accounts describe how that wasn't simply a go / no go determinant. For example,
even if counterfeit, was the workmanship high quality, etc.
The denomination was an issue, but also whether it was from the U.S., or the Confederate States of America.
One major difference, one can accept $cash from a stranger fairly safely. But a personal check is risky, without ID verification, etc.
I'm not wild about government.
But I'm no anarchist.
Many things like that,
- airline safety
- food safety
- road building.
Surely there is government over-reach.
But I wouldn't extrapolate the excesses as justification to abandon government entirely.
I have bitter experience with lawless frontiers. Not a panacea !