Local Control or No Control!

Elected officials often fall into the same traps as bureaucracies. Policy talk replaces principle, promises of money mortgage the future, and revenue streams buy silence. Instead of defending the people, too many act like managers, counting balance sheets instead of guarding liberty. Leaders must resist those pressures, see beyond federal grants and industry guarantees, and remember that their duty is not to revenue but to their neighbors.

This raises a deeper question about the nation itself. Are we a republic of United States, or a set of fifty colonies ruled from the other side of the continent? Or worse, are we ruled from boardrooms, where decisions are made by corporations with no loyalty to the people whose lives they disrupt?