Voluntary Limit of Power?
It seems like this militia movement is about limiting power.
Question: Will any modern service willingly allow its power to be limited? Or do they all use maximum power, any means necessary, to extend power and budgets as far as possible?
The militia might mainly deal with the Federal question, but the dynamic is the same across the board in modern culture. In fact, of the Feds are limited in any way, unless the same limiting method is applied to the state, the states will simply attempt to increase their power to take up the slack. Perhaps, as the dynamic comes closer to home, people can see it more clearly. However, even on the local basis, you can’t cut teacher/cop salary not because they need that much money, but simply because these local folks are used to getting that much.
In any event: as there any movement afoot in the regular police departments that TOO MUCH power (and attendant responsibility) is being placed on cops in the modern era? I’m convinced that because cops have so much power they’re experiencing such high job stress, drug use, divorce, etc. So a truly wise chief of police would start politically pushing to Just Say No to power. —To say that his men will do traffic stops for fewer and fewer reasons instead of more and more. That his men will take care of fewer non-violent drug shinanigans and endlessly repeated domestics. In exchange they’ll be happier, be paid less and get more time off. This is a dynamic that doesn’t seem to be allowed to even be called possible nowadays. Moderns like to pretend that they’re ‘needed’ more and more with whatever they do. When in fact humans today need no more than they ever have. —But they’ll always ask for the moon if you let them.
