{"id":29587,"date":"2018-01-10T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29587"},"modified":"2018-01-10T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T16:22:41","slug":"i-dont-want-your-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29587","title":{"rendered":"I Don\u2019t Want Your Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I Don\u2019t Want Your Leaders<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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In 2017, I wrote a lot about how dangerously centralized our political system in the U.S. has become, and how we need to decentralize governance in order to restore power, liberty and policy experimentation to the local level. This notion that a sprawling and culturally diverse nation of 325 million individuals should constantly battle to the death over the ring of political power in Washington D.C. so as to impose their view on the other half of the country which completely disagrees is patently ludicrous. States, and even metro areas themselves, should be making most of the important decisions that impact their citizens\u2019 lives on a day to day basis.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t complicated. People who live in Boulder, Colorado such as myself have a very distinct worldview on most things from the average resident of let\u2019s say Houston, Texas. This isn\u2019t to say one is superior to the other, we\u2019re just talking generally different mindsets and cultures. The residents of these distinct places should be able to express themselves via policy in a way that most fits the desires and values reflective of these particular regions. While this does happen to some degree, all U.S. citizens are still beholden to the whims of centralized political power in Washington D.C. to a very unhealthy and dysfunctional degree.<\/p>\n

One of the worst side effects of centralized power in Washington D.C. is most Americans waste all their political energy speculating on, or rooting for, who will be elected the next supreme ruler (President) every four years. This is such a gigantic waste of time and energy, but one reason it happens is because the U.S. has an imperial Presidency these days. The executive simply acts in a manner that the founders had never intended, and the other branches of government (legislative and judiciary) permit it.<\/p>\n

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