As long as you have highly centralized national states with major powers over issues like education, social justice, public spending and pensions in a religiously, morally and economically diverse and fragmented society, you are going to have a legitimacy problem and you're going to have public money spent in ways that citizens do not agree with; and you're going to have public policies passed that are completely alienating to a large body of the citizenry.
Agreed, local involvement, knowledge and common sense are key to running a country.
A constitutional 'democratic' Republic is a precious thing that needs nurtured and developed by the people and also the administrative State bodies, with due diligence and fiduciary responsibility.
I've said for years now that the only true democracy is democracy at the local level. Whatever decisions we make at the local level should not be able to be overruled by the state or federal governments! We have our governments upside down and backwards. At the top of the hierarchy should be local government. Who better to decide what should happen in your town or county than the people who live there? Having a local decision overruled by state government hundreds of miles distant or a federal bureaucrats two thousand miles distant is not democracy, it's tyranny!
Agreed, local involvement, knowledge and common sense are key to running a country.
A constitutional 'democratic' Republic is a precious thing that needs nurtured and developed by the people and also the administrative State bodies, with due diligence and fiduciary responsibility.
I've said for years now that the only true democracy is democracy at the local level. Whatever decisions we make at the local level should not be able to be overruled by the state or federal governments! We have our governments upside down and backwards. At the top of the hierarchy should be local government. Who better to decide what should happen in your town or county than the people who live there? Having a local decision overruled by state government hundreds of miles distant or a federal bureaucrats two thousand miles distant is not democracy, it's tyranny!