A bloated central govenment?
How does centralizing work as a social process?
"Centralizing" homogenizes, constricts creative adaptation -an evolutionary characteristic, a human developmental characteristic. Centralizing, socially shapes the belief that one size fit all. Centralizing constricts creativity, ignores diversity, denigrates alternative thinking, and stimulates "polariztion" of people.
Centralizing also fosters a governing "elite," a top-heavy adminstrative layer that grows further and further out of touch with grassroots. Administrative layers, as we've known them in large bureaucracies, e.g. the NYC public schools, (and Democrat governments in general), expand through cronyism. Recall the slogan: it's not what you know it's WHO you know (the basis of cronyism). Centralizing shuts up opposing viewpoints, suppresses LOCAL agenda. It can't meet everyone's needs so it prioritizes, selects, caters to, feeds dependencies, and panders votes.
Centralizing also fosters a governing "elite," a top-heavy adminstrative layer that grows further and further out of touch with grassroots. Administrative layers, as we've known them in large bureaucracies, e.g. the NYC public schools, (and Democrat governments in general), expand through cronyism. Recall the slogan: it's not what you know it's WHO you know (the basis of cronyism). Centralizing shuts up opposing viewpoints, suppresses LOCAL agenda. It can't meet everyone's needs so it prioritizes, selects, caters to, feeds dependencies, and panders votes.
The more centralized governance, and the larger that governance, the more we discover that polarization rears its ugly head...because people don't feel good when needs aren't effectively met. And if government is bloated, centralized, it certainly is not locally responsive except through crooked deals, earmarks, and cronyism. Special favors proliferate ...as we've witnessed in the proliferation of "earmarks" currently bloating the obamacare compendium, now under Supreme Court scrutiny.
Centralized, institutionalized bureaucracy amounts to allowing an administrative elite to declare what will work for everyone -regardless of diversity needs determined in every single local community (beginning with the family, the neighborhood, the town). An administrative special elite supervises access to advantages: THEY design the rules, the laws, the budgets, the paths of access to power (energy resources, media, technology). They publish the rhetoric that shapes how the populace perceives. They in fact make our "local" decisions from a central point of control. Localities differ in nature, character, resources and needs. Centralized decision-making is generally no good for the diversity of "locals" ostensibly intended to benefit from the institutionalizing of government.
I believe in the freshness and wisdom of that which is LOCAL -not federal. I favor governance which is limited, focused, and transparently managed.
I believe in the freshness and wisdom of that which is LOCAL -not federal. I favor governance which is limited, focused, and transparently managed.
As a voter, I prefer to register INDEPENDENT. I don't like the homogenized version of either of the two major parties offered. But in terms of how I live my life, develop children and adults, I espouse a conservative way of living and guiding others in my care.
... In fact, I know very few parents and educators who actually live their lives and raise children in ways that are (politically speaking) "liberal." My friends and family actually live life in the conservative arena. They believe in the wise conservation of human and natural resources. They live life according to prosperity principles. And they believe prosperity thinking and behaving within everyone's personal power, in fact our birthright to be activated from within.
What is the activation process?
What circumstances call it forth from within?
What squelches activation?
What restarts a stunted trajectory?
The "liberal" thought (and "liberal" action) resembles the thinking and passivity of laissez-faire parenting. And fifty years of psychological and educational research has never backed such non-engagement. Laissez-faire parenting leads to advocating "sleep training."
The label "Liberal" is not all it's cracked up to be... but it sounds good. Labels can cleverly cover up truth. Labels can be employed deceptively. As citizens, we are called to be adult thinkers, no longer following, trusting children: look beneath the surface, look into the issue, look around actions out of sync with the words.
Finally, look within. Meditate, cultivate mindfulness ... even politically. Our personal lives can become changed overnight by a subtle series of political misperceptions, mistakes, votes. While we may not see/feel/sense our political lives as palpably as our personal lives, the are as real. We simply may not be as conscious of our political life as we are of our personal life.
Our personal life is often tucked comfortably within a more nebulous (less perceptible) political life. They are in actuality one life. We experience living more powerfully to the extent our "outer" lives ...like the rings around Saturn... are integrated, synthesized, whole. Our life, in all its layers, and on each level, deserves to be lived consciously.
... In fact, I know very few parents and educators who actually live their lives and raise children in ways that are (politically speaking) "liberal." My friends and family actually live life in the conservative arena. They believe in the wise conservation of human and natural resources. They live life according to prosperity principles. And they believe prosperity thinking and behaving within everyone's personal power, in fact our birthright to be activated from within.
What is the activation process?
What circumstances call it forth from within?
What squelches activation?
What restarts a stunted trajectory?
The "liberal" thought (and "liberal" action) resembles the thinking and passivity of laissez-faire parenting. And fifty years of psychological and educational research has never backed such non-engagement. Laissez-faire parenting leads to advocating "sleep training."
The label "Liberal" is not all it's cracked up to be... but it sounds good. Labels can cleverly cover up truth. Labels can be employed deceptively. As citizens, we are called to be adult thinkers, no longer following, trusting children: look beneath the surface, look into the issue, look around actions out of sync with the words.
Finally, look within. Meditate, cultivate mindfulness ... even politically. Our personal lives can become changed overnight by a subtle series of political misperceptions, mistakes, votes. While we may not see/feel/sense our political lives as palpably as our personal lives, the are as real. We simply may not be as conscious of our political life as we are of our personal life.
Our personal life is often tucked comfortably within a more nebulous (less perceptible) political life. They are in actuality one life. We experience living more powerfully to the extent our "outer" lives ...like the rings around Saturn... are integrated, synthesized, whole. Our life, in all its layers, and on each level, deserves to be lived consciously.
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