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So the three examples here (military draft, slavery, open borders) are all good examples of static statism. Statism depends on the mentality that when considering policy changes, it's all about immediate, obvious, static results. You enact a draft, and people have to fight a war. You ban slavery, blacks have no jobs. You close the borders, and no immigrants come in.

It completely ignores the vastly complicated dynamic nature of people and society. You have to think about the reaction that society will have to your policy, and how it will respond. And NEVER is it the case that people will react to your piece of paper with straightforward cooperation. There is always a resistance, and a resistance to the resistance, and so on echoing through history forever. Even if you use guns to the head to enforce cooperation, it doesn't last at all. The wheel always turns.

Modern politics is defined by very smart policies that use this concept to escalate government while keeping resistance low, like multiple loud sound waves destructively interfering with each other to result in silence. A highly discordant policy, like a military draft, would cause a phase shift that totally destroys that careful silence they have constructed. They would never do it.
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