The FBI was notoriously full of racists and people in that organization probably were involved in the plot to assassinate Martin Luther King. A federal badge does not select for saintliness. It does provide though, a ready platform for the comission and covering up of crime. It does provide impunity for bad actors.
Your participation in politics and voting is a form of attempting to secure the "local strongman" who controls the region's security firm. Telling me that people don't have to care about such things because we have "voting" and "democracy" is missing the point. It's as if the Mafia ran your neighborhood but you paper over the nature and import of what is happening by telling yourself something akin to what the Sicillian immigrants may have told themselves: "Ah well, at least he's a fellow countryman, like me, and not some Irishman!" The difference between private and public forms of security and dispute resolution are that we would never give a private firm the benfit of "patriotism" and conflate ourselves with them through collectivist mysticism. We would maintain our vigilence and never allow one such firm a coercive monopoly, such as we do with the State. If you participate in politics you do care and worry about which strongman controls the local provision of security and dispute resolution. That's my point. You don't want the wrong people installing their friends to have power over your life...and politics becomes, at least in the Western democracies, as far as I can see, more divicive and acrymonious by the year as the governments accumulate more power and the laws become more intrusive the stakes go up for everyone.
Re: I see. Voluntary systems
Your participation in politics and voting is a form of attempting to secure the "local strongman" who controls the region's security firm. Telling me that people don't have to care about such things because we have "voting" and "democracy" is missing the point. It's as if the Mafia ran your neighborhood but you paper over the nature and import of what is happening by telling yourself something akin to what the Sicillian immigrants may have told themselves: "Ah well, at least he's a fellow countryman, like me, and not some Irishman!" The difference between private and public forms of security and dispute resolution are that we would never give a private firm the benfit of "patriotism" and conflate ourselves with them through collectivist mysticism. We would maintain our vigilence and never allow one such firm a coercive monopoly, such as we do with the State. If you participate in politics you do care and worry about which strongman controls the local provision of security and dispute resolution. That's my point. You don't want the wrong people installing their friends to have power over your life...and politics becomes, at least in the Western democracies, as far as I can see, more divicive and acrymonious by the year as the governments accumulate more power and the laws become more intrusive the stakes go up for everyone.