Wherever there is no government, more government appears to fill the vacuum,

Heck, even roving bandits in the absence of any government proper are a government of a sort. Just a really bad one.

> roving bandits in the absence of any government proper are a government of a sort.

Very experienced players eventually come to realize most governments eventually devolve to not be much different than non-roving, entrenched bandits. :-)

And even more elite players eventually come to realize that above the non-roving, entrenched bandits, there are roving bandits forming their own government. :-)

Now you see the system inherent in the violence!

Trump may think he's the king, but he's still got shit all over him.

Exactly. Government is just another word for "who has the power to control things around us".

Somehow the fascists never seem to expect that an authoritarian would use their newfound power to hurt their in-group.

Who needs fascists when our existing politicians in Western democracies are already hurting us?

Who said they weren't?!

Reminded me of this comedy skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibDNwF8bjs

>Somehow the anarchists never seem to expect people to use their newfound freedom to erect a new government in place of the old.

Theres so much anarchist writing on this exact topic lmao. It's even the core theme of Le Guin's Dispossessed, with the anarchists replacing a state with an internalised social hierarchy, even while worrying that certain elements of their organisation layer are going to become the government, they rebuild the government.

No anarchist I have ever met has ever thought that one day they turn the government off and thats the end of the job.

The same way democracy doesn't expect that people that are free to choose who governs them would choose communists.

Both democracy and anarchy are a belief system based on the assumption that their ideal state is good enough to be self-replicating.

> The same way democracy doesn't expect that people that are free to choose who governs them would choose communists.

May I introduce you to the concept of Democratic Socialism?

I'm familiar, thank you

How's that different than Unions or COOPs? They also suffer from power struggle.

This is not a reflection on any type of wording of group activities, rather human nature.