I don't necessarily think that's true. You can allow policies that are more open to abuse at more local levels because you have more control to avoid those abus

I don't necessarily think that's true. You can allow policies that are more open to abuse at more local levels because you have more control to avoid those abuses. For instance, I think communism at the national level would be a disaster because it implies a level of government control that can and would be abused. At the family level, it _might_ be workable.