RT48, the irony is that that is the nature of the Liberty beast: We tend to eschew centrally controlled, top-down structures. The downside is that organizing Liberty-minded folks is a bit like herding cats.
The left has an advantage in this regard. They love central control and rigid organization. This helps them in the ranking-and-filing of their unthinking robots.
The genius of our Framers was in noticing that preserving Liberty required that they put checks on central control. They didn’t try to get the States to give up their identities to become part of some collective. Individuals remained sovereign, ceding some of their absolute freedom to local and State governments in order for those governments to preserve essential Liberty. The States then ceded some of their authorities to a national government, maintaining their sovereignty, to strengthen the protections for Liberty. Federalism was born.
The further we have strayed from this model, the more we have centralized power the more we have weakened individual Liberty.
Liberty-minded groups would do well to try to apply a similar model to the one the Framers invented. We have many groups, each with slightly different priorities, objectives, and methods, but with the same goal: preserving Liberty. We should not try to fold them into a single group. Instead, we should look to improving coordination, to increasing cooperation, possibly even confederating them.
My objective in creating this thread was to help me personally network with the various groups and individuals, to allow me to augment their efforts.
Your posts make it sound like you too are interested the varied groups moving in a more unified way. Thanks for joining the thread.
