&gt; The weakness with THAT argument is that it assumes a conspiratorial, immoral federal government. Many of us may be able to imagine that, but it&#x27;s an idea at the periphery of the Overton window.<p>As a matter of fact, the US government was established with this basis in mind. You can see this through the checks and balances system, as well as the representative democracy, and the first ten &quot;rules&quot; of the Constitution, which are rules to protect the people.<p>The creators anticipated the worst kind of people inhabiting the government and set it up to protect us from them. I wouldn&#x27;t be so quick to dismiss it.