Our nation uses English because the majority of original settlers used that language and needed a common language to make commerce possible—also the reason that it is now used internationally. As an aside, there is no mandated language because we are not French. ;)
As long as men exist, mankind will be evil. We are not angelic children waiting for the opportunity to be perfected; we are a horde of voracious egos waiting for the opportunity to satisfy our carnal appetites. The whole anarchist movement is no more than the same old reprieve: I will be like God. No matter how many times you say it, it will not be true. This is not to promote a theological argument at all, but to recognize a fact of human nature.
Anarchy is not the order of the day among hunter-gatherers—tribalism is and tribalism is also the limiting factor. Africa is a prime example: they are still relegated to poverty, not because of a lack of anarchy, but because the relationship between tribalism and anarchy cannot be ignored. Tribalism ends in anarchy, and anarchy leads to tribalism. Unfortunately, between each transition lie a lot of dead bodies. The only redeeming quality of tribalism is that its excess is limited to its own small sphere of influence.
It is impossible for your utopian claims to survive the real world. Our founders understood the depravity of mankind and established limits on government with that express understanding. Some men are capable of restraint, but mankind is not. Individual capability notwithstanding, human nature is not consistent with reality, much less logic, and true altruism exceeds every individual.
That same lack of logic and perspective exists in every human organization, but that doesn’t mean that every organization is evil; it just means that those tendencies have to be controlled externally. Unfortunately, the larger the group, the more impossible it becomes to maintain that control. This problem is exacerbated when it comes to government, because every government tends to grow without limit or logic. We can see the result all around us.
This problem is why the majority founders were federalists. Federalism maintains a self-interested, but limited government because power resides in discrete local entities with inherently limited expression. Power resides at the local level, but no locality can gain or maintain a monopoly at the federal level. It is only because our local governments are now Federal lackeys that we have devolved to the current condition of complete dysfunction.
Federalism acknowledges both individual freedom and the reality of human evil. The struggle between federal and local governments establishes that same tension that regulates the free market. As long as the states and local governments retain the bulk of power, the leviathan is caged. When states and local governments relinquish that power, totalitarianism is inevitable.
The triumph of modern liberalism is not the establishment of our current socialist state, but the creation of the one centralized government with the consent and willing participation of an ignorant population.
The only way to fix this country is to reestablish the true system of checks and balances through federalism. Under federalism, our country once achieved the height of human liberty while guarding against both totalitarianism and anarchy.
>>Power resides at the local level, but no locality can gain or maintain a monopoly at the federal level. It is only because our local governments are now Federal lackeys that we have devolved to the current condition of complete dysfunction.<<
>>The only way to fix this country is to reestablish the true system of checks and balances through federalism. <<
You believe that the Federal government can be controlled by the Federal government? Is that what you are saying?