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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: TimF who wrote (124331)2/3/2004 9:12:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<Even if we can assume that the world government would be a democracy the new electorate (of which Americans would only be a small fraction) might easily decide for even bigger government. >

Tim, that's likely, given the way people around the world vote. Look at India after half a century of freedom from the British Empire; they have maintained massive socialism for decades and are only now releasing the stranglehold slightly.

The Eurosclerotic nations like lots of Big Government.

It would be essential to limit the NUN to sovereignty over the commons [ocean, spectrum over the commons, air quality, border definition and protection and river quality and stuff like that]. The NUN wouldn't be stipulating toothbrush design standards or systems of weights and measures. If Americans want to use gallons [not even the good old Imperial type], and measure their daily exercize in miles, that would be up to them. Of course Big Government would want to define and control everything, the nature of megalomaniacs [politicians in general] being to be God.

Hence the need for limited powers.

Democratic processes seem to get the best answers for most people to feel happy enough to not join insurrection movements. How else would we appoint people to be Chief NUNist?

Mqurice
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