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Why Can’t You Switch Your Government?

Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org--I was having a conversation with my wife recently.

“When you say you want to create a consent-based society,” she said, “what do you mean?”

I replied that I want all human relationships in that society to be consensual, not compelled. We went round and round for an hour.

I didn’t get very far in persuading her.

To most people—my wife included—the very idea of a society based on consent is a strange abstraction, even though it’s in our Declaration of Independence.

For our entire lives, we have grown up under the authority of a monopoly that, at the end…

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