I agree with dead0man that the federal government is public enemy #1 at this point. Today that means breaking federal power. Tomorrow that means breaking state power. After that is breaking local power. Practically, I think it would be easiest to devolve government into oblivion.
Maybe I'm wrong & the solution is demolishing the state & local governments & then killing the federal behemoth. The historical examples of communist & fascist nations have taught me to fear centralized governments.
I agree 100%. Good to see some anarchsim come out in you. I agree that we should focus on more local power for many reasons. For one, the federal government is much less accountable to its citizens than state and local governments are, thus allowing the federal government to grow much larger in size than the state and local governments. Another reason, governments that rule over a smaller population and land are much less capable of meddling in other nations' affairs than a government ruling over a large population and land. Third, a bottom-up approach is more consistant with individual sovereignty than a top-down approach. If you keep on getting government down to a localer and localer level, you will eventually have individual sovereignty. However, if you keep getting government to a broader and broader dominion, you will eventually have world-government, the exact opposite of individualism. Additionally, immigration is much less of a hassle between small nations as it is between large nations. So, if you disagreed with the policies of a nation, you could just move a few miles down, rather than having to move hundreds of miles away. Another reason is that smaller nations are much more dependant on trade than large nations, and so are less likely to have an interventionist economic policy. I could keep going all day, but those are the basis reasons for individualists to prefer localism to individualism.
