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 Easier now than before bitcoin. The nation state has proved over and over that it is incapable of controlling its debt. The reason it can't control its debt is because elected assemblies are inherently corrupt. Legislatures attract the most corrupt people. What are they going to do when the population isnt using their fiat, so they can't use debt to steal from the people? They'll turn on each other. Some will abscond with their ill gotten gains in the form of bitcoin, like African dictators with Swiss bank accounts. That's the moment that any prepared community can renegotiate the terms of their union. That moment will come over and over until all power has been renegotiated back to the local level. 
 democracy means "people power" and it goes to whoever controls the people 
 Lets hope for this and do our best to make it reality.