Of course anything even remotely resembling a union is "communist", so we can rule that option right out.

Private sector unions are a perfectly reasonable expression of the right to assemble.
It's when they distort the market and drive jobs away that achieve that full "solution in search of a problem" state.
Public sector unions, like mutinies and rabid dogs, need to be put down.

The anti-Federalists have won the argument, at the expense of the country.

Oh, I know precisely how I can. I'm merely wishing to observe your gyrations as you try to simulate free will, while denying it.

"The Empire never ended."
-- Horselover Fat

If the rich and the powerful are perpetually the problem, then they are not the problem.
Our challenge is convincing 'enough' people to participate in politics. Not necessarily run for office, but show up, participate, and hold these elected jackwagons accountable--or vote them out.

How can you even evaluate 'best'? You materialists are TCP/IP, continually arguing against HTTP.

To the extent that I can stomach Rome comparisons, you'll note that there needed to be some external force to topple the rot. I don't see how that's a worry.

But I agree, and think we should be prepping for a re-ratification of our 1787 Constitution at the 250 year point. That's far enough out there to plan it and constrain it and have a sober contemplation of whether the last century of Progress has been worth two hoots.

So say you. If that's REALLY the case, then why were we bothering with any of this noise, then?

I'm fallible, and mortal, and will be in great shape to last more than another five decades. How about something more lasting, then?

Monestaries

Do you promise to complain really loud when Progress has crushed individuality and capitalism, and returned us to full aristocracy?

That'd be greaaaaat.

Indeed, the 16th & 17th Amendments, plus the Federal Reserve Act were excreted 100 years ago.
So maybe, just maybe, we've enough debt and oppression afoot to question whether this was all a swift idea, and consider an alternative.

BBC did a viddy on this in 1992.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AUvrPvV-KQo

Just paranoid, bullshit? Sponsored by the CIA and British intelligence, NATO operatives - under the false-front, operating as a "Marxist Terror Gang" kidnapped and murdered the Prime Minister of Italy in 1978.

This was just a single instance of organized para-national political violence including strings of European bombings and assassinations, beginning in the 1940's and continuing at least into the 1990's.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

Then, after the cold war, there are no longer "Marxist Terror Gangs". They all just gave up and went home, I guess. Now, there are "Muslim Terror Gangs". Amazing.

PS. Don't look too closely at the Balkans.