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The battle for autonomous citizenship in a democracy was lost decades ago. Its true roots are the move to venture capital to avoid the WW3 that the previous military centric system would have created by around the 1980's. The ideals of a warmonger state lend meaning to citizenship. Venture capital is feudalism. It is a system where autonomy and citizenship are in principal opposition to the interests of capital. A military must justify its cost with action. A feudal lord needs a mechanism of servitude but the name is irrelevant. Slave, and serf have been used in the past. No one will ever try to call you one of these loaded terms. They will alter the meaning of citizen until it is functionally equivalent. The feudal serving class are not owners of their tools, land, or means of survival. They have a theoretical right to legal recourse, but mechanisms bar them from doing so in practice.
This makes no sense. You prefer a warmonger state to one based on free enterprise and economic growth because (checks notes) it makes citizenship meaningful? Literally what.
Where did I make any kind of statement of personal opinion of preference?
Okay I got nothing. Maybe it makes sense to somebody else.