I agree with much of what you lay out here. I have always believed that the best government is local government, and that higher levels of government should be tasked with making sure the lower levels conform to overarching principles (civil rights and representation being an example) and to try to equalize resources between all allied local governments for the good of the whole.
This perspective tends to prevent the "one size fits all" sound-bite solutions and is one of the reasons I want to make sure some measure of equal representation for smaller populations is maintained so that urban needs do not end up completely running roughshod over rural needs. One of my more extreme analogies is that if we elect all national representatives in the US (particularly the Executive and the upper chamber of Congress) proportional to population then we end up with the cities doing the deciding and the rural populations becoming, in effect, a new serfdom providing services (like food and water) to the cities without any benefits.
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Date: 2016-06-29 01:51 pm (UTC)This perspective tends to prevent the "one size fits all" sound-bite solutions and is one of the reasons I want to make sure some measure of equal representation for smaller populations is maintained so that urban needs do not end up completely running roughshod over rural needs. One of my more extreme analogies is that if we elect all national representatives in the US (particularly the Executive and the upper chamber of Congress) proportional to population then we end up with the cities doing the deciding and the rural populations becoming, in effect, a new serfdom providing services (like food and water) to the cities without any benefits.