Our founding fathers, Henry Clay, Hancock, Jefferson, Franklin, regularly mentioned following the Swiss model for democracy and militia. And to a later degree about neutrality. But thankfully we weren't too neutral about letting the European powers keep messing around in North America and are where we are at (should have taken Mexico when we had the chance). I feel if we had followed the Swiss militia system we wouldn't quite have the serious deficits that we have in our society. There'd be more coherence between cultures, and while we are a heterogenous society we'd hail to a common purpose. Now we are a fractured people in the U.S., the weak outnumber the strong, and amass cowardice to destroy attempts at liberty, our culture is unduly feminized, and those men for whom once this nation was built upon and the lands settled, would be deemed monster, psychopaths, and criminals. "Once they would have hailed me Casear, but now I am but a mad man among sheep" (don't remember exactly where that is from).
