Message from @The Bitter Draught
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@The Bitter Draught IT sucks
I think it was coming, our cities are going solid b lue
My district in VA had no Republican on the ballot
If they both eventually fail dont they both never work ever?
Also it doesnt appear to be an eventuality. Consolidated power gets abused pretty quickly, while decentralised power takes time to centralize, all components being roughly equal
Only a Democrat and a Libertarian and a write in
The Richmond Times dispatch is shitting itself in excitement like a puppy when you just get home.
and the puppy just got done eating every edible thing in the garbage.
Our VA newspaper
You down in Richmond?
Im up in Nova the bluest part of the state
Yeah my whole town is blue as can be.
WE just renamed some of our schools because they were named after some big name Democrats who were party leaders for decades.
Also they turned out to be hardline segregationists.
You don’t say!
Im shocked
Dems and segregation?
Maybe it was before
the
parties
switched
@Beemann
> If they both eventually fail dont they both never work ever?
A. Your system doesn't "eventually fail", it never gets off the ground.
B. That's like asking if drinking water really works to hydrate you, since you eventually have to drink more water.
> Also it doesnt appear to be an eventuality.
Assuming you're not living in a fantasy world, it absolutely does.
> Consolidated power gets abused pretty quickly, while decentralised power takes time to centralize, all components being roughly equal
Not really. Additionally, decentralization makes accountability much harder. Finally, we were talking scope of government, not centralization.
I'm not sure what Beeman and Kevin are talking about.
Also I foresee taxes, gun laws, and comical redristricting comming soon to the Old Dominion.
@The Bitter Draught Dont you know the parties swtiched sometime after 1960 and before FDR?
The US ran the system I'm talking about, until it was undermined primarily in the last hundred years or so. Decentralization is a sliding scale. It's not dictatorship or ancapistan. Further,
1) decentralization means that you are ruled by a more-local body, which is more accountable
2) scope of government is a factor of centralizarion
@Beemann Coudn't you also describe it as the power of a local government who is more responsible vs a remote yet still authoritarian system?
Local can certainly be totalitarian or loose.
I wouldn’t describe it as a switch per se.
Switch in popularity maybe but the Republicans were never a party of segregation
A smaller/more locsl system can still attempt to be totalitarian, but the more local you get, the harder it is to maintain control like that
Dont you know the parties swtiched sometime **after 1960** and before **FDR?**
@Beemann What. No. Local warlord or lord?
Lmao @ VA
Local warlords dont often maintain power
General Lee where r u pls help
They can maintain for a generation.
The Congo is a mess because nobody has the power to control more than a small area at a time, and everyone wants power
@FitnessByHeatherHeyer Didn't you get the Memo? All Civil War statues are celebrations of slavery and literally proto hitler.
@Beemann I mean sure, also because they violently kill and rape each other 24/7, and everyone has a blood fued.
Right but that's obviously not a sustainable model at any scale