Do you support federalism or anti-federalism?

I feel like this is a clever trap.

You means do you support united states or secession ?

A federal state is essential for any large landmass.

The choices are as follows:

1) Federation (obvious choice)

2) Balkanization (we all know how terrible and weak this is)

3) Totalitarian centralized control (who the hell wants this?)

EU tries to take a 4th option - a bastardised pseudofederal state with the de jure capital in Brussels and the de facto hegemon of Germany. And it isn't really working out.

I'm not sure if you're aware of this but at least 25 countries practice federalism. It is not solely an American ideology.



That last part was pretty funny.

I support fettermanalism.

ya its working out pretty well why get rid of it

Who said that?

Please define what you understand by federalism.


In the early days of the US, the term "federalism" referred to the proponents of stronger centralization, in particular creating a central/federal government. Simply put, to the creation of United States of America as opposed to a loose association of sovereign states.

In the EU, and often times also in contemporary American discourse, "federalism" refers to concepts such as the subsidiarity principle, devolution and the like. Simply put, it refers to a preference for as much power as possible being moved away from the central government and toward the lowest possible level, e.g. the nation states (EU), the federal states (US, Germany, Austria) or even the county and municipal level.



I'm a big proponent of federalism in the latter, contemporary sense.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Sep 22 2023 02:54pm

So do you support fracking or not!