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I'm not sure where you got the idea that the American experiment is about making the government synonymous with the people.

The American experiment was all about splitting the governmental power among different entities, keeping the government small and letting the people preserve freedom and power - while still being protected by the government.

The constitution is a tool to prevent the government from overreaching - and it's been successful at that.

Unfortunately, this experiment also grew in the largest and most warmongering government in the world.

To me, the USA are the proof that minarchism doesn't work and that we need to try anarcho-capitalism.

>>joketh+(OP)
> I'm not sure where you got the idea that the American experiment is about making the government synonymous with the people.

It's a common mistake to conflate the Gettysburg Address ("government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth") and the Preamble of the US Constitution ("We the people...")

>>joketh+(OP)
it's hard to take that criticism seriously when you choose to hang your hat on anarcho-capitalism, a system that isn't even coherent in theory, much less in practice (were it to be). democracy is literally about aligning the government to the will of the people. the US is a representative democracy, which is a compromise borne of the founders' uneasiness with direct democracy (partially because it would mean piercing the sovereignty of the states).

>>joketh+(OP)
> ... we need to try anarcho-capitalism.

This is the worst idea I've ever heard. [1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...

>>Igelau+M4
The whole point of the electoral college was to intermediate the people and the government. The fear was that information wouldn't travel quickly enough to all edges of the realm, and that people couldn't therefore be trusted to make an electoral decision.

>>arctic+FR1
that had me literally laughing out loud. although to be fair, it was only depicting libertarian capitalism. anarcho-capitalism would be more like westworld on steroids.