[Moneyguy1]

pat....

As much as I hate to confront you precisely, you have mentioned being "robbed at gunpoint" by government a number of times.

In addition, where YOU may be able to act independently, protect your property and supply everything you need, the VAST majority of the citizenry want a degree of "guidance" and do not wish to be in a situation where their survival depends on eternal vigilism, surrounding themselves with land mines, firearms, bazookas, and frontier justice.

You are obviously intelligent, but apparently unable to follow your separatist philosophy to the logical conclusion which would be based upon the individual's strength, placing many at the mercy of their more powerful and amoral neighbors. From your postings, one could assume, rightly or wrongly, that you would be loathe to help your less prepared neighbors and indeed might just take advantage of their relative weakness, leading to a situation no unlike a feudal system, that is, if you permitted these less fortunate folks to live......

Those parts of America that were near anarchy such as the Soutwest of the late nineteenth century had the advantage of sparce population. Built-up areas (Cities) would quickly collapse economically and socially. This is the way history works. Proving otherwise would be to refute the thing upon which you hang your hat so strongly.....History.