Libertarian Socialism

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I believe you mean one of two things

1) You prefer the people to govern directly instead of electing representatives to govern for them

or

2) The government is so out of control that the people no longer control it

I'll take one on the local level and two on the global level.

If you go back to the dawn of the industrial revolution, unions began to form. Many of them were anarchist. These populist movements created the middle class. Prior to this it was completely unheard of that labor could dictate how much they were paid and what conditions they could work in.

At the time there was a draft to fight in ww1. The police backed the robber barons rather than the organized labor. Most of the exploited labor were immigrants that would be deported if they went on strike.

This forced the progressive era to happen. Industrialists had to start caving in and providing benefits, if they didn't want to be forced into an early retirement. At the time Democrats were a bunch of elitist, klan hooded, skull and bones motherfuckers. They didn't make these reforms because that was their party position, they made these reforms because they had to OR ELSE.