RadLocCent-BioReg-LibMunc
Our political system is broken. The electoral process is not working and there is nothing to fix it.
I would possibly want us to implement city-state radical localism throughout the US (due to me supporting Strategic Autonomy)
But this should be implemented in the decentralist in the way I write below but I do not support conventional decentralize (which can be achieved through revolution). Basically peaceful seizure of state power to the people within the state
City-state radical localism would be the decentralization of federal control over our lives via various sessions across the US (regions and localities separating themselves from larger political units)
This would be good because by using a city-state type system, besides fighting against a Paternalistic government we would also say good riddance to the right wingers by separating ourselves from them via this system once it is implemented
This would be similar to when the 13 colonies broke off from the British Empire in 1776 or the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact countries from the USSR in the late 1980s (i.e liberation of the Eastern Bloc from the USSR)
America's economy has declined many times due to warmongering, fiscal irresponsibility, rising fuel costs ,rising health care and housing costs, unemployment, inflation etc. Americans also have been polarized due to politics and class.
Americans would need to fight against corporate oligarchy which controls this seemingly unjust and evil system we live in. Through systems like City-State radical localism there would be a way for Americans of all background to fight against a common foe (the system), while managing and respecting their differences while doing just that. Once we do that we can find out where to go from there
City-state radical localism would provide self determination by creating communities that meet their own unique desires and standards as a way to fight against the system who seeks to use differences between us to divide and conquer us.
Basically this means creating specialized communities and intentional states with their own businesses, schools, labor groups, social services, organizations (i.e cultural), courts, militias, health care systems etc. It's been done in other countries so being done here would be good
This would also include national homelands for laborers as I feel every worker deserves a place that appreciates and rewards their hard work. This is one reason I support the Labour Party and Blue Collar Caucus and and can be seen throughout this blog
I would want this City-state radical localist society to morph into a decentralized Left-National Libertarian Bioregional society and or a Libertarian Municipalism society
This would allow for political, cultural and fiscal systems to be sustained better and be more humane since they would be organized differently (i.e around areas that are naturally defined called bioregions).
I always thought that humans are not the best people to create borders. Only God/nature could create good borders. In this system, borders would be defined naturally, through things like watershed boundaries, and characteristics of soil and terrain as the way that nature drew them up.
This also would promote more interaction with the locals of those areas who can help with focused knowledge and solutions to better sustain such areas than through man made boundaries. Case in point, whenever someone needs help in a new town or city, who is the best person to help them? A local!
Our bioregions' geography, climate, plants, animals etc are a big factor in our interactions and actions toward each other, in short we are 'products of our environment' . As such having bioregions in this post state country or limited/minimal state country will deepen those natural connections we have with our bioregions, allowing them to shine fiscally, culturally and politically while we become further connecting to it in ways that are liberating.
This would also be better than regional naming which is very fuzzy and imprecise (ask 100 people what states are in the Midwest for example and most of them would not have the same exact states on their lists)
Some bioregions I feel would be great ideas in this post state/limited minimal state country would be obvious ones like the Alaskan Pandhandle (Sitka has more in common with Panhandles communities than with Nome or Barrow), Pacific Northwest/Cascadia ,Far Northern California (since once you go north of the Bay Area, it seems like another world from even places like Sacramento, Chico and Napa Valley, more so than areas in inland Southern California do), Ozarks (which even culturally are way different than places in other areas of their states i.e St Joseph Missouri, the Mississippi River valley in Arkansas, Texarkana area of Arkansas, the parts of Oklahoma and Kansas that border Colorado and Nebraska etc)
I feel Communalism and Libertarian Municipalism would replace the nation-state . This would include creating networks of direct democracy in the form of citizen assemblies in individual communities and cities in a confederal sort of way. This is one of the reasons that I support radical localism
I agree with Leopold Kohr that bigness (opposite of radical localism) causes social issues (brutality, negative collectivism, aggression etc) This is due to the overconcentrated social units
Libertarian Municipalism would be constitutes of the politics of social ecology, a revolutionary effort in which freedom would be given institutional form in public assemblies that become decision-making bodies.
These institutional forms would take place within differently scaled local areas.
This would be a societal structural change so that people would gain power. This would be done through the municipality—the city, town, and village—where we would have an opportunity to create a face-to-face democracy
Libertarian municipalism would create a situation in which the two powers—the municipal confederations and the nation state couldn’t coexist. Basically, it would strive to expose the inherent power imbalance and tension that exists between the nation state and the municipality.
This would be done to challenge and overcome state power. This would be a means to achieve a rational society, and its structure would become the organization of society.
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