{"id":31550,"date":"2018-02-24T07:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31550"},"modified":"2018-02-24T07:46:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T12:46:53","slug":"we-cant-keep-expecting-the-federal-government-to-fix-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31550","title":{"rendered":"We Can&#8217;t Keep Expecting the Federal Government to Fix Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-about\">\n<h3 class=\"article-republish-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/we-cant-keep-expecting-the-federal-government-to-fix-things\/\">We Can&#8217;t Keep Expecting the Federal Government to Fix Things<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article-subtitle\"><strong>Whatever your solution may be, the path to change a nation starts locally.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body-cont ng-isolate-scope\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>It\u2019s happened again, another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/florida-school-shooting-these-are-17-victims-n848706\">tragedy<\/a>\u00a0in America, and once more we hear the cries for systematic change echo from coast to coast. Instead of berating you with countless policy prescriptions in the aftermath, and whether or not they will deter these events in the future, I would like to offer a piece of advice to those seeking to come out of this with more than just \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d that I think has been grossly overlooked and underutilized in society today. Rather than entrench ourselves in the emotional mudslinging within social media anytime an event like this occurs, we ought to turn inward, towards our own backyards and communities, and recognize that the path to political change starts locally, not nationally.<\/p>\n<p>We need a new \u2014 or rather, old \u2014 approach regarding societal problems that have become deep-rooted today. Right now, the cultural norm, whether due to technological advances that put us in closer contact with one another or the process of political centralization, is to call for change on a federal level any time a problem is observed. This wasn\u2019t always the case, and I rather believe this practice taking hold is a contributing factor in these tragedies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diversification and Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before social media allowed us to criticize the viewpoints of people on different continents from the comfort of our living room, and before politics became completely centered around what the federal government was doing, people aired their grievances in their local communities. If you noticed what you thought was an urgent problem within your child\u2019s school, for example, you wouldn\u2019t tweet at a senator in Washington, D.C., you\u2019d go to your local school board meeting. And as it turns out, that\u2019s still the most effective route.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Can&#8217;t Keep Expecting the Federal Government to Fix Things Whatever your solution may be, the path to change a nation starts locally. It\u2019s happened again, another\u00a0tragedy\u00a0in America, and once more we hear the cries for systematic change echo from coast to coast. Instead of berating you with countless policy prescriptions in the aftermath, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1662,5207,14991,379,6509,637,1169,18915],"class_list":["post-31550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-federal-government","tag-federalism","tag-foundation-for-economic-education","tag-government","tag-local-government","tag-politics","tag-social-media","tag-thomas-j-eckert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31552,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31550\/revisions\/31552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}