"And the biggest problem is that the people who keep electing and reelecting these constitutional morons to the highest political offices in the country don't even recognize that it's a problem." When was the last time we were allowed to cast a vote for a constitutional mensch? Honest men rarely conquer the political ladder, itself grounded in lies and self-interest... and when one (like Ron Paul) manages to approach the top anyway, our "allies" work extra hard to ensure he is never nominated and we are never given the chance to choose him. Trump won because he was rich enough to end-run the necessity of having the support of our "allies." He was not a great choice by a long shot, and yet he was still head and shoulders above all the alternatives. I don't have to be happy with him to know I would have been much less happy otherwise. And I'm not stupid enough to think that either of the two major parties will ever nominate a constitutionalist.

Exactly. But it goes much deeper. For example. Let’s say you have 200 families living on 5 square miles of land. All they are is good neighbors. There is no government, because they are good people, and have no need for formal government. Now, lets say that members of 20 of these families get together and want to form a government. They talk 20 more families into it, and the 40 families form the government. Ten more families join, and they start taxation of the whole group. The other 50 families weren’t even interested enough to realize what was happening. But members of the 50 government families force all the families to take part in the taxation. Isn’t this stealing by governmental action? Isn’t this exactly what government does today? Make the whole government voluntary, and if there are benefits that someone wants, make him pay for them. But leave the rest of the people alone and don’t tax them.