cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/politicalmemes/p/392491/do-you-agree
Do you agree?
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2025
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The American system is not a system where the power comes from the bottom up. It is very much hierarchical where entities have authoritative power over the rest. The feds exist above the state that exists above the county that exists above the city. When the feds make a law, everyone underneath them in the hierarchy has to obey its law or be policed. It's happening right now in the US how this hierarchical structure is forcing states to withhold releasing SNAP funds because the federal government, her on the hierarchy, commands it of them. America is also hyper-capitalist, the system of private property ownership where the owner exists above the laborer/consumer, which is also inherently hierarchical.
I'm not here to tutor you, and I'm not going to engage in an argument theorizing over "what works" with someone who doesn't even understand the fundamentals of hierarchy versus anarchy. You have no authority to request examples of me for you to judge what does or doesn't work.
If you need explanation, there are videos on YouTube. Anark is a good one who is very in depth with his theoretical knowledge.
But it is bottom up. The feds are elected by the people, or appointed by those who were elected. Specific powers are vested in the state, county, and municipal levels. Co-equal branches were designed to prevent despotism.
The fact that it went to shit anyway proves my point. With all the democratic accountability, checks and balances, local power, it was still corrupted and twisted into authoritarian hierarchy.
I've watched plenty of videos, done plenty of reading, and what few actual structures I see presented are vulnerable to the same corrupting forces that subverted the American model.
No, it isn't.
The very concept of an elected representative who has authority over a mass of others is literally a hierarchy where the elected official gains authority over the populace.
You don't have a point that is worth a damn because your point is uneducated and misinformed.
Whatever you watched you didn't understand. You clearly do not comprehend even the fundamentals of Anarchism.