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> Texas generally fears a tyrannical government more than they fear a random shooting. So they give freedom to guns to spread out power. When Texas Governor Ab
by panarky 5y ago
> Texas generally fears a tyrannical government more than they fear a random shooting. So they give freedom to guns to spread out power.
When Texas Governor Abbott prohibited local counties, cities, towns, districts and public health agencies from making their own decisions about face masks, how is that "spreading out power" to avoid the dangers of centralized "tyrannical government"?
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-issues-executive-order-prohibiting-government-entities-from-mandating-masks https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-issues-execu...
When the centralized state government forces cities and counties to remove voting locations, that's not "spreading out power".
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-houston-greg-abbott-voting-austin-11ff8a7a5a581940cb5c37b4e167270e https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-houston-greg-abbott...
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- true_religion 5y agoThe federalist system in the US states power originates in the people as represented by the State governments. The Federal government has its powers delegated to it by the States. Local government similarly have their power delegated to them by the state. Thus there is no hypocrisy in a state governor wanting less local power and more state power. In this framework, The State is after all the atomic point where no further decentralization is possible.