Sure but my point is just that we still need local government and there are real benefits to small government. I agree there are also benefits to federal oversight but I don't believe that more federal power or control would continue to be beneficial. The balance is important and I prefer as much power concentrated as close to me where I have a chance to influence it.
Well, that's a preference, not an argument. I would prefer not to be held captive by the cultural inertia of former slaveholding and/or union-busting local government, and appreciate the assistance of far-flung compatriots in ridding us of their residual insults to individual and collective dignity.
Yeah I disagree that you can effect real change on a national level without first proving the ideas on a smaller scale. Local governments can be progressive as well as oppressive. I don't pretend to know what people halfway across the country know. I don't want specific input into their lives.
