Much of the right/left divide proceeds from different views of whether centralization makes positive reform more, or less, possible.
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Whoops, should be 'capitol', not 'capital'.
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Markets are not democratic mechanisms in a way that they can mitigate negative externalities. Corporations will seek to socialize losses and privatize profits unless the the state, responsible to the polity, prevents that.
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Textbook assumptions of hydraulic equilibrium miss all of that. But again, none if this has anything to do with centralization per se, but rather with power and accountability.
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Have you not been following the trend of corporate consolidation that has created monopolies.
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If it was just about centralization vs. localism you wouldn't see conservative state governors shutting down liberal city and county-level experiments with high minimum wage, muni public broadband, etc. But you see that everywhere.
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Yeah, “centralization” is a pejorative that, again, cuts only one polemical way when conservatives use it. But there is plenty of centralization going on in the name of conservative policy goals.
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Sure dude
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