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Anarcho-Capitalism is a meta-platform for voluntary systems of governance.
We have no right to dictate to the sheep that they must abandon their collectivist Mommy Governments. If they claim to consent to it, and won't be persuaded - that is their problem. We just need to secede and create better alternatives.
We already have examples of Anarcho-Capitalism where the "horizontal size" of government is rather small (that is high freedom to leave), even if the "vertical size" of government (how much it taxes, spends, or interferes) is rather large. Take Liechtenstein or even Singapore for example: you can think of it as a large voluntary neighborhood, where you sign a contract to move there, and you are free to leave any time you want.
An Anarcho-Capitalist world is one where there are millions of nations instead of hundreds, with many new ones being started up every day. All big countries like USA, China, India, Russia, Ukraine, etc need to be broken up. I advocate #Rexit, Republican County Secession for USA - the Donald people might not like that, but that's the only way to avoid being ruled by commies. There would also be secession of Native American sovereign lands, etc. But the most interesting means of creating new nations in the 21st century is seasteading (and eventually spacesteading as well).
And so people will be free to vote with their feet. The sheep will have their sheep neighborhoods, and people who want more individual freedom will have something very different.
And what kind of a force would break up all of the nation's? What kind of a force would prevent these nation's from coming together?
The question is, what kind of force is holding the nations together in the first place?
The answer is: brainwashing and blind faith.
When a small minority starts debunking the brainwashing and faith in the government, the government is threatened. If they are non-violent and use modern information technology to get their information out (outside of the commie censorship platforms), then martyring them would make the government look bad.
It would at some point be in the politicians' short-term self-interest to let the secessionist activists go, and that would start the crack in the dam...
If Gandhi could do it, so can we.
"The answer is: brainwashing and blind faith."
The answer is external threats. There is a reason why the general public was sold on the global nanny state post WW2. We now lived in the nuclear age and we couldn't afford another rise of a "Hitler".
"then martyring them would make the government look bad."
Not unless the they get the consent of the other half of the population... There is a reason why we are bring labelled domestic terrorist. We are already subhumans to most hardcore leftist. It might red pill some leftist but by then it would already be too late. Look at any country prior to and during the beginning of any communist take over.
"It would at some point be in the politicians' short-term self-interest to let the secessionist activists go, and that would start the crack in the dam..."
That's exactly why they would never allow it.
The only chance we have of surviving the commies is by taking their funding and infrastructure. 100's of trillions of $$$ in wealth.
Secession can come afterwards.
We've had the rise of a dozen communist tyrannies a lot worse than Hitler.
Which is why we need to advocate and show absolute non-violence.
They had to allow US secession from the British Empire, and the crumbling away of all other colonies. Even the Soviet Union had to break up when the faith in its benevolence was lost.
I can only deny them the fruits of my own labor. I've been a tax resister since 2004. If even 5% of the population did what I did, socialism would be on its knees...