| Jaicee said: I'm enjoying getting to see everyone's results so far! The fact that none of us has anything like an identical combination goes to show just beneath the surface of simplistic left-right alignments, we all think pretty uniquely in truth. |
Yeah. I think we all are different and have different ideals. We should still be able to get along and respect each other. And yeah, the simplistic binary view is a way to make politics a power game instead of a tool to improve the life of citizens. Them against us is not goal-oriented but power oriented. And even if they include you and me in the 'us', the ones actually grabbing the power are only a few people. Not only politicians, also strong corporate sponsors.
EricHiggin said:
Which is exactly why large (growing) Federal Governments are such a big problem most of the time. You either need many many separate smaller democratically based Countries where a large Fed Gov isn't necessarily a problem, because the people who choose to live there want that style of Gov, or, in a single large diverse nation, a small Fed Gov, with many many larger more powerful State Gov's (though not too large or powerful). The world would be a much better place if people were able to live how they wanted without having to be forced to differently by Government, or if we didn't have people going around forcing others to live differently through Government. |
There is also the alternative of a central gov with separation of powers, so that each part of the gov in itself isn't that powerful. The separation of power into smaller units is one way, but also separating different powers in a bigger country works as well.
