increasingly find myself in favor of almost any measure that would in practice decrease our potential rate of change at the federal level, and any measure that would in practice increase our potential rate of change at the local level
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Republican voters are constantly pushing for more autonomy to be shifted to the local level. Whether they’re doing a good job with it or not is another question.
you are referring to arguments that have been made for the right *not* to change, which is not at all what i'm talking about. i am talking about embracing local political structures that would make it easier to build new things — physical infrastructure, social programs etc.
