As I said, that was definitely a devil's advocate position, and on this I very much agree with you in principle but not on approach. The approach I would rather

As I said, that was definitely a devil's advocate position, and on this I very much agree with you in principle but not on approach. The approach I would rather see is to devolve power the federal government has managed to aggregate back down to the states, and hopefully even more local levels. I've commented on this before; I'll just link those instead of repeating myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11966167#11969956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11966167#11969956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12530363#12532344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12530363#12532344