During the Cold War, the USSR was the "enemy". Today, though not in any kind of war, China has taken the role of "adversary". What other nation has grown into a challenger to the hegemony the US has enjoyed since World War II? China has done this by forsaking economic central control for a bracing dose of free market capitalism, and it has served them very well. But they remain very much the one-party, centrally-planned political behemoth. By contrast, the US has been turned from the free market capitalism of its earliest years to a crony-capitalism-dominated economy that reliably transfers wealth from the poor to the uber-rich. This is the result of the House of Representatives becoming the plaything of major corporations and their special interests.
To fend off the juggernaut of China for world dominance, the US must resist the recent direction toward socialism (becoming more like China!), and remember its roots of individual liberty and free market capitalism. It can do both of these things most effectively by replacing representation of territories with representation of personal values, which is the whole idea behind Canton Nation. In China, the party is everything; the people only exist to serve it. By transforming the House of Representatives into a canton forum, every person is represented in that body, and the values of every person direct the course of the nation, because the cantons represent the people in their personal values, not in the incidental fact of where they live. To answer the challenge of China in the future, we must become LESS like China, and give back to the individual citizen (every last one of them) the exalted position they deserve as inheritors of the American legacy, where the government is there to serve the people, not the other way around, and to be directed by the people, not by special interests. If we maintain the status quo of representation by territory, we will fall further behind in every way.
The purpose of government is to allow people to cooperate in accomplishing deeds that the majority find necessary.
Federations are a manifestation of the natural law principle of subsidiarity. The Dolphin canton takes this principle very seriously. What that means practically is that, whenever any national government program is being reviewed, the first question asked will be: can this be better handled at a lower level of government (such as the state, county, municipality, or perhaps outside of government altogether)? If the question is answered in the affirmative, the canton will not be supporting the program at the national level, though it may support whatever assistance may be needed to transfer the program to whatever level may be judged more appropriate. Isn't this making things worse for the taxpayer? Probably not. National programs such as Medicare are so rife with corruption that pushing the program down to a lower level will probably result in better oversight. In addition, this provides the possibility of innovation, which a single top-heavy national program will squelch. Economies of ...
One of the top stories in the news today is about the US Supreme Court hearing arguments of an abortion case that may result in a reversal of Roe v Wade. As the interim champion of the Dolphin canton [1], I would not support government giving money to Planned Parenthood. It should be clear that opposition to abortion will never go away, which means that Roe v Wade, like Plessy v Ferguson (1886), went beyond where the people really stand on the issues. Plessy v Ferguson allowed segregated schools in some instances. This was reversed by Brown v Board of Education (1954).
There are two things in my mind that make it impossible to accept the right of abortion. First, it is clear from biology that the very first cell produced by the joining of the sperm and egg cells (the zygote) has a genetic signature different from both parents. This continues to be true throughout the period where it is called an embryo until the birth of a new human being. Therefore, the fetus is not part of the woman, but ...
