>I wouldn't want Trump running the fire department, but I want that as a government function. This is not an either or proposition. >We know what privatizing

>I wouldn't want Trump running the fire department, but I want that as a government function. This is not an either or proposition. >We know what privatizing a fire department does. Half of Denmark's population is served by private fire departments. What has it done, exactly? For the record, I'm not opposed to public fire departments, but this illustrates the benefit of pushing the power of government as locally as possible. Let's consider the 'face punch' theory of political discourse. If your county commissioner is really fucking things up, there's a fair chance you'll eventually run across them at the local coffee shop and you can punch them in the face. Maybe you wind up in jail for a few days, but enough face punches and things will start to change. If you try that on the President, you'll probably be killed before you ever lay a finger on him. Now, I'm not actually advocating violence here, just illustrating the differential of influence in a hopefully comical way.