Why secessionists want out

I am not a great Ron Paul for President fan, because I am not confident that he can be elected; or if elected, that he would be able to govern. However, in this 2003 speech, quoted in Vermont Commons, Rep. Paul does express the sense of most secessionists that the Federal Government is corrupted beyond all repair, and that the only way to fix the problem is to reduce our governments and societies to a more human scale.