The Federal Republic of the Philippines

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So kung mag federal nga tayo, and the same trapos/warlords are running things...will it make things better?

Speaking as an ignorant non-Mindanaoan: i can't shake the feeling that going federal will only legitimize the warlords and their private armies. What with the rido and revenge killings that are all the rage in Mindanao, magka giyera pa yan, state vs. state.

We talk about this form of government being better than the other, but most of the time it's the people in government that's the problem. imho, it's people that need to change.



Sorry for being such a noob: if we do go federal, would what happened to USSR, where several states declared independence, be a possibility for PH? Is it somehow easier to do so in a federal form of government?

the question would be: if you are skeptical of diluting power, shouldn't you be more skeptical of centralizing/concentrating it?

as in the case of the rest of the world, be it monarchy, dictatorship, theocracy, federal, central or confederate, none of those matter when you have a bunch of extremists in your turf and they would wreak havoc wherever they please.

but looking back at swiss confederate history, in people's minds there were fears of local warlords just running the place at the time of william tell after they got their independence. turns out they did pretty well and they have a LOOOONG history of keeping arms in their households(and for the most part avoided wars and conflicts). swiss don't even have a distinct culture as they are pretty much a melting pot of european descents and languages.

one can only dream of becoming one. but we're not alone in that regard. brits too want to be like the swiss.

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as it stands, our country's government is top-down meaning power WAAAAY concentrated to the top.

time and time again, this has the tendency to produce excessive bureaucracy and ever expanding power over the ordinary citizen's life

on the other hand, countries that tend to prosper are among those who have the freest laws and where power isn't as much centralized, i.e. smaller communities have autonomy

How Switzerland's political system works

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