More local governments splinter as people try to gain control over their lives and escape badly run larger governments. The small secessions of the new civil war could be seen as another devastating tear in the fabric of the nation, or the best hope for repair.
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24 replies on “The Small Secessions of the New Civil War: Local Governments Splinter to Gain Control”
I’m good with a law requiring municipalities to fission at 500,000 residents.
Scott, you are so thoughtful and considerate I am so sad you didn’t get elected. Wake up Pennsilvania! You had a chance to have a real civil servant that was willing to serve you. Come to AZ and run here, or just keep trying. There are a lot of open seats on school boards right now…..
This is a discussion of “subsidiarity” as taught by the Catholic Church. It teaches that individuals are prime and that society’s needs are best supplied by actions organized and controlled at a level closest to the citizens needs.
Accountability, yes, first stop referring to the amorphous pseudo-personages of things like the federal government did that or the DOJ said this. Refer to the legislators by name, governmental positions by persons name, DOJ personnel by name. Give everyone being wronged and lied to an actual target, a person to pin the badge of dishonor onto. Instead of some imaginary straw-man pseudo-entity that is easily hidden behind.
The lack of accountability prevents change. Why should the elite politicians change? They fear no repercussions or reprisals. Worst thing that might happen is they resign in shame and rerun next session…
Just a thought….
Interestingly, when the Dec. 6th “incident” happened; AOC was truly scared and freaking out hiding in another Congressional office closet. I think this was an instance of “guilty conscience”. She knows what she has done, the lies, the theft, the cheating, the bodies left lining the street by her actions. She “KNOWS” she deserved to be punished and really thought her time had finally come. She likely thought they found out everything and where finally going to put a stop to all the anti-American, anti-human, anti-Semitic, racist, fascist, and criminally negligent lies and deceit. it is the only thing that explains her super paranoid over reaction to the situation. Nobody was calling for the “death” of attacking of Congress. AOC was far away in another building and not on camera, so this wasn’t just a show.
Things that make you go hmmm….
Steve knows more Aussie history than most Australians. The reasons why New Zealand did not join Australia are fascinating. There were suggestions that it would join as two states north and south island. Wellington in the north was furious that it might loose control and authority over the far less populous south Island. The second reason was the fact that the New Zealand Irish were monarchists and protestant’s while the Australian Irish were (French style) republicans and Catholics, both sides protested the idea. The third problem was the treaty of Waitangi. The Maori had fought the British to a deal. Some, particularly in northern Australia, thought that unity between New Zealand and Australia would force similar treaties in their states with the Aboriginals or that Maori warriors would train Aboriginal fighters. So some northern Aussies opposed New Zealand joining. The New Zealanders thought that unity might force a negation of the treaty. A Maori controls the balance of power in the New Zealand parliament today. Lastly New Zealand stood to gain several pacific island British colonies and did not want to share them with Sydney and Melbourne.
Read deTocqueville: he nailed it back in 1840. the greatest danger to our system of government and liberty is centralization of administration at the Federal level.
In Australia a small hippy valley called Bell Bird seceded from Hastings Shire centered on the town of Wauchope and joined Tamworth shire. There is an impassible mountain range between Bell Bird and Tamworth. Hastings Shire was trying to demolish most of the buildings in the Bell Bird valley for various reasons. The state and federal government allowed mud brick buildings in the valley but Hastings did not. Tamworth was much more flexible, and someone in the valley had deep pockets. A year or two later the Shire president in Hastings landed himself in jail, cannabis cultivation on shire land. Guess what he had planned for the empty valley. Tamworth and Wauchope are north of Sydney.
This is the utopia I dream of
Great show, great ideas. Thanks Scott for your insight.
I’d give this a “Like” but I don’t see a button, any help?
No like button, but a series of 5 stars to rate teach vid
see the thumbs up/thumbs down symbols in bottom left corner?
But I agree it would be nice if there was “universal” agreement on what symbols are to be used, placed in a consistent location for all blog postings/ web sites. How many times do we see a nearly hidden window closing “x” similar in color to its background, and located other than in the upper right?
Especially for pop up ads.
Another ‘feature’ of being too big: ease of cheating. I wrote this a while back:
https://globallibertymedia.com/are-we-too-big-to-not-cheat/
This is an interesting issue as there can be a “Too Small” aspect that can look like it doesn’t make sense. When I first moved to where I now live in SW VA, I couldn’t understand why in a fairly contained valley we had 4 distinct government organization. A county, 2 independent cities within the county, and one town which is different politically from the city in that it is subordinate to the County. This seemed highly inefficient to my engineer’s brain and I had thought that many services could be combined. Did we need 3 fire departments, 4 police departments, 4 sanitation, 4 councils, 4 city/county/town managers, etc?
Then I decided there are benefits to being this divided.
I live in the town and pay a very small additional real estate tax. For that we have our own police department, many of whom I know. The people who work at our fire/rescue station all live in the town. When changes are made to the “downtown” area, there is full accountability since we are very likely to run into those folks at the grocery store or church.
But we also share some services, quite amicably as Steve pointed out, where it makes sense. Snow removal, paving, street cleaning, among others.
Smaller is better for accountability as Scott said.
I am also stealing Bill’s quadrant of finances. Like that very much.
K-12 public schools are way too big. There are high schools that have the population size of towns and prisons, in the thousands.
93% of k-12 teachers are female. the other 7% are beta male eunuchs who go along to get along. admin is over 90% female. those teachers and administrators vote d’rat probably 99% of the time.
your thoughts?
I though that a few years ago CA tried getting a referendum on the ballot for splitting into six states but a judge shot it down on the grounds that self governance is too important to be left up to the people?
Somebody had obviously hit that “judge” on the head too many times, since he was unable to recognize the irony of the statement that “self governance is too important to be left up to the people.”
My question remains: Why do voters continue to elect/appoint such stupid people to positions of power?
Why? Most likely the people get no real options. You get dumb or dumber…which option is best.
Regular people (serfs, deplorables, plebes, working class, non-elite born, etc.) are not allowed to successfully operate in the specialist elite field of politics/power. This career field has its own version of good old elitist club’s unwritten rules. The entire structure of politics from start to finish is complicated and not easily traversed intentionally. It doesn’t matter whether it is local, state, regional, or national the system protects the status quo of the power and structural control that it has built around itself like a strong fortress on the hill overlooking all they rule.
Why would they want any outsiders to change this?
Absolutely. In federal elections, we do _not_ get to pick the candidates. The DNC and RNC pick them. So we can only elect one of those from whom the two parties want us to choose . With the DNC, you don’t even get to choose _their_ candidate of your choice. (That happened with the RNC as well, when they refused to let Ron Paul’s votes to be counted in the primaries. No way in hell they were going to let the Fed be audited, with all that entailed.)
Or, not enough!
I considered that, but I wanted to avoid promoting violence against a sitting judge. 😉
For anyone wanting a link to the referenced story
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/small-secessions-new-civil-war-daniel-greenfield/
On the flip side, as a resident of Arlington, VA I’d be willing to take one for the team and have DC take us & Alexandria back to spare the rest of Virginia from the Leftist tyranny. Remember the only reason that Arl & Alex are part of VA is that VA took back it’s land donated for the capitol just before the first time the Democrats started a civil war so that Democrats could keep their slaves
I voted for the Valley to leave Los Angeles. Probably should have started a terror campaign after LA rigged the election and wouldn’t let us leave.