We should be looking for more decentralised solutions to the issues facing us right now. The state is limited in the degree to which it can help. Indeed, it seems to be much better at doing damage than helping the cause.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I agree with you entirely. It is impossible to properly micro-manage at the macro or national scale. All that happens in the end is a whole lot of money gets spent doing virtually nothing. Reasonably recent estimates for my state government delivering services was that five cents in the dollar actually hit the ground.
The other 95 percent employed the public service, consultants and preferred contractors.
It is a seriously corrupted model that has only two dubious attributes . The first is that it continues to grow and the second is that it believes it’s own bullshit.
Grandad
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Oct 19, 2019
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It appears to me that the centralized IS the problem.
dmatic
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Oct 15, 2019
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In many cases that is correct, yes.
Thus the concept of federalism. We have 50 “Petri dishes” experimenting with different concepts of governing. Citizens get to vote with their feet if one “Petri dish” consistently produces better results.
Oldvet
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Oct 14, 2019
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Unfortunately I am not American so this doesn't apply in my case. In the United Kingdom, although there is significant devolution of powers to the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland assemblies, we are still technically a unitary state, and a pitifully small one at that. The government in the UK has also historically had greater power than the US federal government. However, I think that the federal government in the US has been steadily extending its control for a while. My post was primarily a response to certain people on the right that think they can capture the state and use it to solve various issues i.e. excessive immigration, terrorism, etc. In practice the state has just been steadily acquiring more power over the years, and when it gets into the hands of the wrong people (Tony Blair for instance) it can be used to nefarious ends. Consequently I would prefer that we not employ the state to solve these issues, as it has in many cases created them.
What solutions should WE decentralize????? And what causes are WE trying to help????
Serg97
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Oct 13, 2019
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I am talking primarily of the demographic problem i.e. the decline of the population of white people relative to other groups. The solution here is not deportation or any other state-based solution, but rather having more children. There are of course other issues, but it should be obvious from a brief look at my account as to what I consider them to be.
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